Kenya Lake Victoria Waterkeeper Leonard Akwany Honored with 2019 African Ranger Award
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Leonard Akwany, the Kenya Lake Victoria Waterkeeper and founder of Ecofinder Kenya, has been honored with the 2019 African Ranger Award. The African Ranger...
Waterkeeper Alliance Joins Leading Environmental Groups in The Bahamas in Launching StopDisney.com – Last Chance for Lighthouse Point campaign
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Waterkeeper Alliance announced today the launch of a new digital campaign to persuade Disney to drop its controversial plans to build a massive cruise...
The Hippopotamus: What this animal is doing for Africa’s Lake Victoria and why it’s important
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Georgia Lambrakis, Waterkeeper Alliance intern Lake Victoria is one of nine African Great Lakes. With bustling wildlife and unique species, it is one...
How the Clean Water War is Won: Waterkeeper Alliance and Culture Trip Introduce “Waterkeeper Warriors”
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
The Waterkeeper Warriors campaign features photography of waterways around the world and the Waterkeepers who defend them, with stories voiced by Alec...
9 Projects Preserving and Protecting your Waters
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Georgia Lambrakis, Waterkeeper Alliance intern Whether it’s crafting policies to protect a waterway or advocating against a destructive development,...
13 Restoration Successes
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Georgia Lambrakis, Waterkeeper Alliance intern As Waterkeeper Alliance celebrates 20 years of fighting for drinkable, fishable, swimmable water, we’re...
15 Pollution-Prevention Victories
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Waterkeepers defend their waterways against every source of pollution, whether it’s toxic arsenic from a mine, oil that’s mixed into stormwater, or...
Saving Salmon: Swedish Baltic Rivers Waterkeeper
- By: Swedish Baltic Rivers Waterkeeper
- News
By Thomas Johansson, Swedish Baltic Rivers Waterkeeper and executive director of the Baltic Salmon Fund The Baltic Sea coast of Sweden is fed by rivers...
Earth Day: Our Growing Water Crisis and the Water Warriors Fighting it
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
When millions of people flooded the streets 49 years ago for the first Earth Day, they were making a path, a path that thousands of local activists have...
20 Years of Clean Water Wins
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Today, on World Water Day, I can’t help but reflect on the billions of people around the world without access to clean and safe water. But there’s...
The Green New Deal: What Does it Mean for Water?
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
By Marc Yaggi and Gabrielle Segal With 2018 being the fourth-hottest year on record, and 18 of the 19 warmest years on record having occurred since 2001,...
In Awe of the Women of Waterkeeper Alliance
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By April Seymore, Executive Officer of Port Phillip EcoCentre/Port Phillip Baykeeper Feature image: The author (second from left) aboard the SV Pelican...
Waterkeepers Document Devastation: Florence in Photos
- By: Lindsey Muzzio
- News
Waterkeeper Alliance and Waterkeeper groups in the Carolinas documented the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Florence. As soon as it was safe to do,...