Latin America
Amazon Waterway: New risks for the river guardians under the pandemic
- By: Amazonas Perú Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Liliana García & Verónica Portugal, Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR) Photos by Rolando Mondragón/DAR Deep in the Amazon, the people...
New legal analysis: Dams that threaten the source of the Amazon can’t legally be built
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
The environmental impact assessments for two dams planned on Marañon River, the main tributary to the Amazon, have expired, meaning the dams can no longer...
Peru’s planned dams would displace 1,000 and “decapitate” the Amazon
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
Photos by Ben Webb Twenty hydroelectric dams are planned for Peru’s Marañón River, the primary tributary to the Amazon; two have been approved. These...
Waterkeeper Alliance to Appear in The Visionaries Series on PBS
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases
Waterkeeper Alliance will be profiled in the upcoming season of The Visionaries, the award-winning public television series hosted by acclaimed actor Sam...
The people who will save the planet: Waterkeeper Warriors featured on Visionaries
- By: Tom Quinn
- News
On the first Earth Day fifty years ago today, April 22, 1970, Pete Seeger sailed the-one-year-old sloop Clearwater to Washington, D.C., with messages of...
The Source of the Amazon River at Risk Because of Dam Projects
- By: Marañón Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Bruno Monteferri, the Marañón Waterkeeper Photos by Ben Webb Help us protect this irreplaceable treasure. Sign up for our email updates today. Two...
For Time Indoors | More Waterkeeper Content!
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Wondering how you can stay in the fight for clean water from indoors? If you can, consider donating to your local Waterkeeper. Nonprofits depend on events...
Waterkeeper Documentaries for Time Indoors
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Wondering how you can stay in the fight for clean water from indoors? If you can, consider donating to your local Waterkeeper. Nonprofits depend on events...
Our Work Continues
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
In the face of the global coronavirus pandemic, Waterkeeper Alliance is making plans to continue our important mission-driven work, strengthening and supporting...
Roger Herrera Tapia is Keeping the Watershed Clean in Todos Santos
- By: Gary Wockner
- News
During my visit to Todos Santos in January of 2020, Roger Herrera Tapia was always smiling. It’s a miracle that he’s always smiling due to the amazing...
20 Dams Put Peru’s Heritage at Risk
- By: Marañón Waterkeeper
- Clean And Safe Energy | News
By Ben Webb and Bruno Monteferri with Marañón River Waterkeeper Photos by Ben Webb Help us protect this irreplaceable treasure. Sign up for our email...
Latin American Waterkeepers Tackle Climate Change
- By: Rafaela Iturralde
- News
Leer en español “Climate change is a clear and dire threat to Latin America and the Caribbean. A threat in which the region has had little or no role...
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...
3 Projects Making Strides in Human Health and Education
- By: Guest Contributor
- News
By Georgia Lambrakis, Waterkeeper Alliance intern As we reflect on 20 years of our fight for drinkable, fishable, swimmable water, we celebrate the strides...
9 Projects Preserving and Protecting your Waters
- By: Guest Contributor
- News
By Georgia Lambrakis, Waterkeeper Alliance intern Whether it’s crafting policies to protect a waterway or advocating against a destructive development,...
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...
Protecting the Peruvian Amazon: Indigenous groups fight bad environmental impact assessments
- By: Sharon Khan
- News
In northern Peru, a proposed massive project to dredge Peru’s four most critical Amazonian rivers, the Marañón, Ucayali, Huallaga, and Amazon, is threatening...
Salmon Farming Stopped in Yelcho Lake, Patagonia Chile
- By: Futaleufú Riverkeeper
- News
Nearly 10 months have passed since the community of Chaitén received an alert that fishing cages had been installed in Yelcho Lake with the purpose of...
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...
In Awe of the Women of Waterkeeper Alliance
- By: Guest Contributor
- News
By April Seymore, Executive Officer of Port Phillip EcoCentre/Port Phillip Baykeeper Feature image: The author (second from left) aboard the SV Pelican...