News & Updates
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Recapping the 2023 United Nations Water Conference
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The United Nations held its first Water Conference since 1977. Waterkeeper Alliance had an international delegation, including Mbacke Seck of Hann Baykeeper...
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Who Is Waterkeeper: Gidon Bromberg, Jordan River Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The Jordan River runs for about 100 kilometers, from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea, serving as a border between Israelis, Jordanians, and Palestinians....
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Op-Ed: The Climate Crisis is a Water Crisis
- By: Marc Yaggi
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy | News
By Marc Yaggi This week, many of us from around the world—including environmentalists, politicians, corporate leaders, and more— gathered at the United...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Delivers Natural Water Systems Declaration to United Nations
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases
Today, as part of its participation in the 2023 UN Water Conference, Waterkeeper Alliance delivered a declaration on behalf of a global coalition calling...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Applauds EPA’s Plan to Limit PFAS Contamination in Drinking Water
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a new rule for regulating PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) in drinking water. The agency...
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Waterkeeper Alliance and True Elements Announce Partnership to Support Watershed Health
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Press Releases
New Partnership Aims to Support Citizen Scientists with AI tools and Build Trust in Water Quality Monitoring Across the Globe True Elements, a pioneer...
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Tell EPA to Reestablish CAFOs as a National Enforcement and Compliance Initiative
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Every four years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets national enforcement and compliance priorities to focus its resources on the nation’s...
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WATCH: Gan Riverkeeper in China Pilots Innovative Water Monitoring Solution
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Gan Riverkeeper in China, along with their parent organization, has pioneered an innovate method for monitoring water quality in their local waterways. ...
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In Response to Lawsuit, EPA Announces Timeline for First Revisions to Slaughterhouse Water Pollution Standards in Nearly Twenty Years
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Press Releases
In a victory for clean water, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced its intent to publish updated water pollution control standards...
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Tijuana Waterkeeper: Co-creating community science based solutions / / / Tijuana Waterkeeper: Construyendo Soluciones Colectivas Basadas en la Ciencia Comunitaria
- By: Tijuana Waterkeeper
- News
The environmental complexity of issues to which waterways are exposed to in Tijuana requires more and better collaboration between stakeholders to co-generate...
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Who Is Waterkeeper: Pete Topping, Peconic Baykeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
If New York’s Long Island is shaped like a fish, then the Peconic Bay and estuary are the space between the tail fins. The waterbody separates the north...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Renews Call to Modernize Federal Rail Brake Systems Following Ohio Train Derailment
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Press Releases
As a public health and environmental disaster unfolds following the derailment and explosion of a toxic-chemical cargo train in East Palestine, Ohio, advocacy...
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Waterkeepers Meet in Bangkok for Regional Summit
- By: Min Zheng
- News
The long awaited Asia Summit finally took place from January 20 to 25, 2023 in the heart of bustling Bangkok, Thailand. As the first summit of the new...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Celebrates EPA’s Decision to Veto Pebble Mine and Protect Bristol Bay’s Irreplaceable Watershed
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Press Releases
Waterkeeper Alliance celebrates the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) release of its Final Determination for the Pebble Deposit, which...
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Tell EPA to Adopt Strongest Possible Methane Regulations
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently proposed an updated draft rule to cut methane and other harmful pollutants from oil and gas operations...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to EPA’s Latest Plan for Regulating PFAS Discharges; Points to New Great Lakes Study as Reason for More Urgency
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Waterkeeper Alliance is responding to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) release of its latest plan for controlling PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl...
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Guayllabamba Waterkeeper and the Ancestral Community Practice of Mingas
- By: Guayllabamba Waterkeeper
- News
Did you know that for many generations in the indigenous communities of the Ecuadorian highlands, when irrigation water is lacking, everyone is summoned...
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Who Is Waterkeeper: John Peach, Upper St Lawrence Riverkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The St. Lawrence River is an international border, with Ontario, Canada on one side, and the U.S. state of New York on the other. It connects Lake Ontario,...
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Maule Itata Coastkeeper and the Challenges of Water, Food, and Environmental Defense
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
The Nace Project (Conservation R&D) Somewhat forced by the political-social circumstances in our country of Chile, a constituent process rejected in...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Opposes Final WOTUS Rule
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Press Releases
Marc Yaggi, CEO of Waterkeeper Alliance, released the following statement in response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s recent release...
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Futaleufú Riverkeeper Advocates for Water Reserve Designation
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
This year Futaleufú Riverkeeper celebrated ten years working to protect the Futaleufú River. It’s been a long journey of ups and downs since we began...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Holds “Fly-Over” in North Carolina to Get Better Look at CAFO Crisis
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Recently, Waterkeeper Alliance held a “Fly-Over” in North Carolina. With the help of South Wings, and accompanied by a half dozen other local...
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Bahia de Banderas Waterkeeper Takes an Innovative Approach to Litter and Poverty
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Bahia de Banderas Waterkeeper, an affiliate of Waterkeeper Alliance based in Mexico, has introduced a Trash4Tokens program, which is a Preventative campaign,...
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LETTER: Waterkeeper Alliance Urges EPA Administrator Regan to Quickly Address Widespread PFAS Contamination
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Press Releases
EPA pressed to meaningfully address PFAS crisis after new study found 83% of the waters tested across the country were contaminated by dangerous PFAS chemicals...
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Dive Into Democracy: 2022 Year In Review
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
Through our Dive Into Democracy blog and email series, we informed and engaged our U.S. audience on the most pressing clean water issues of the day. In...
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New Guidance from EPA will Help States Limit PFAS Pollution at the Source
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
This week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a memorandum to states that provides direction on how to use Clean Water Act discharge permits...
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EPA’s Newly Proposed Rule to Enhance Reporting of PFAS Data is a Step in the Right Direction
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a new rule to close the minimum loophole from using per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). This...
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Who Is Waterkeeper: Melinda Booth, Yuba River Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The Yuba River runs for about a hundred miles from its origins in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Lake Tahoe in Northern California downhill to the Sacramento...
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Monitoring Water Quality With Loreto Coastkeeper
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
Eco-Alianza de Loreto started Loreto Coastkeeper program in 2012 and began analyzing water quality at recreational sites along the coast of the Loreto...
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Bocas de Ceniza Waterkeeper and the Tough Path to Environmental Justice in Colombia
- By: Liliana Patricia Guerrero Ramirez
- News
The values that inspire us at Bocas de Ceniza Waterkeeper and guide our actions are: justice, peace, equity and respect for Mother Earth (water, soil,...