Waterkeeper Alliance

Waterkeeper Alliance is a worldwide network of environmental organizations founded in 1999 that work to protect bodies of water around the United States and the world.[1] By December 2019, the group said it had grown to 350 members in 46 countries, with half the membership outside the U.S.; the alliance had added 200 groups in the last five years.[2]

Waterkeeper Alliance
Formation1999
HeadquartersNew York City, New York, U.S.
President
Gloria Reuben
Executive Director
Marc Yaggi
Founder
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr
Websitewaterkeeper.org

In 1983, the founding Riverkeeper organization formed around the Hudson River in New York, in response to the untreated sewage and industrial water pollution that was degrading water quality in the river.[3] Today, Waterkeeper Alliance, based in Manhattan, unites all Waterkeeper organizations. The group helps to coordinate and cover issues affecting Waterkeepers that work to protect rivers, lakes, bays, sounds, and other water bodies around the world. In the United States, only 52 of the 180 groups cover watersheds west of the Mississippi River.[4]

In June 2019, the group announced a project with online travel website Culture Trip called "Waterkeeper Warriors." They named 20 activists who “represent the impact one person can make on an issue that affects us all."[5]

Notes
  1. Kiniry, Mike (2023-04-03). "We meet the new Collier County Waterkeeper, Ray Bearfield". WGCU PBS & NPR for Southwest Florida. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
  2. Mangat, Rupi (2019-12-11). "Kenya: Waterkeepers Take the Garbage Out of Rivers, Fight Polluters and Transform Lives". allAfrica.com. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  3. Revkin, Andrew C. (2000-04-16). "Savvy That Matched a River's Need". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
  4. Roberts, Michael (2019-12-10). "Brad Evans's Mission to Turn South Platte River From a Sewer Into a Gem". Westword. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  5. Specker, Lawrence (2019-06-13). "Mobile's Casi Callaway honored as 'Waterkeeper Warrior'". Al. Archived from the original on 2023-04-08. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
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