Your local WATERKEEPER is the eyes, ears and voice for your waterway – suing polluters, confronting regulators and engaging the communities that depend on clean water to take responsibility for their resource.
Waterkeepers are full-time, privately-funded, non-governmental advocates for an identified river, lake, bay, or sound. They are recognized by their community, local government, and media as the voice for that particular body of water. They advocate compliance with environmental laws, respond to citizen complaints, identify problems which affect their identified bodies of water and devise appropriate remedies to address these problems.
The Black Warrior Riverkeeper has been doing just that since 2001. Special recognition granted this Riverkeeper a fund raising badge, below. Your contribution will make a difference, help this Riverkeeper get the job done!
HBO produced this 5-minute video on how Hudson Riverkeeper, which was started in 1966 in New York, inspired the creation of Waterkeeper Alliance and 190+ Waterkeeper organizations across the planet.
Cameron Diaz talks about the water issues we face today and how the Waterkeeper Alliance has led the way in preserving our most precious natural resource.
This 3-minute film explains what Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper (UCR) is, how it was founded, and the work it does to protect and preserve the Chattahoochee River, which provides 3.5 million Georgian's with water for drinking, business, recreation, and more.
Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right
The Hudson River: A Natural and Unnatural History By Robert H. Boyle
Heroes
Robert F. Kennedy Sr., Judge Frank M. Johnson, Rachel Carson, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Bob Boyle, Local Farms, Community Supported Agriculture, David Attenborough, Aldo Leopold...
But the best part of my job and my life, is that I get to work with the greatest heroes of all: the WATERKEEPERS!
Check out the site for more info:
http://www.stjohnsriverkeeper.org/
Clean water is the lifeblood of the St. Johns Watershed. Increasing population, unprecedented growth and development, and long-term environmental impacts are threatening the environmental health of the river’s tributaries and the river itself.
Waterkeeper Alliance was founded in 1999 by environmental attorney and activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and several veteran Waterkeeper leaders to strengthen the impact of our 180+ individual Waterkeeper programs.
WATERKEEPER Alliance the center of an international network of environmental advocacy organizations dedicated to cleaning up rivers, lakes and coasts through aggressive, grassroots action.
Waterkeeper Alliance acts globally - fighting for the right to clean water on six continents, and organizes locally - supporting and connecting local
Waterkeepers in the fastest growing grassroots environmental movement in the world!
Who I'd like to meet: People who recognize that more than half our bodies are made of up water, and that ensuring clean water worldwide, for ourselves, for future generations, is a life-long battle.
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Hopefully Alabama's 6 Waterkeeper Alliance programs (Black Warrior Riverkeeper, Cahaba Riverkeeper, Choctawhatchee Riverkeeper, Hurricane Creekkeeper, Mobile Baykeeper, and now Tennessee Riverkeeper) can help improve these government flaws.
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the eye can pierce without limit, amidst these floods of pure, soft,
cheering light, under this immeasurable arch of heaven, and in sight
of these countless stars! An infinite universe is each moment opened
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