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.
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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!
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.
To learn more about Waterkeeper Alliance, please click here.
Also people who are interested in protecting water in their own communities. To find a Waterkeeper protecting your watershed, check out the list here.
Find our how to start a Waterkeeper in your community!
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Music:
Phil Lesh and Friends, Tea Leaf Green, The Allman Brothers Band, Tortoise, The Beatles, Architecture in Helsinki, Tom Phonic, Tae Kim, Gabe Schliffer in Thy Burden, Umphrey's McGee, Widespread Panic, New York Philharmonic, Dave Matthews, Broken Social Scene, Burning Spear, Marco Benevento, Assembly of Dust, The Bad Plus, The Breakfast, Buxter Hoot'n, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Jefferson Airplane, Joni Mitchell, Lettuce, Marvin Gaye, Nada Surf, North Mississippi Allstars, Medeski, Martin and Wood...
Movies:
Ganymede the Waterkeeper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DGc2DDG36k
Check out Ganymede's adventures from our comic strip in the Waterkeeper magazine.
Cameron Diaz and the Waterkeeper Alliance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09r5bJz8MXc
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.
Television:
"Scratch" the image below to reveal Waterkeeper Alliance's President.
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Books:
Reading to Get Inspired and Into the Movement! The Riverkeepers By: Robert F. Kennedy Jr & John Cronin Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human RightThe Hudson River: A Natural and Unnatural History By Robert H. Boyle
Heroes:
Rachel Carson, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy Sr., Judge Frank M. Johnson, John Davenport, Thomas DeLuca, Dr. Bruce Berg, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Bob Boyle, Natalia Gouznova, Local Farms, Community Sponsored Agriculture, David Attenborough, Lee Myung Bak, Janine Benyus, Aldo Leopold...there are so many more, but just two more I'll mention now, Ms. Bernard - my High School Environmental Science Teacher, and Dr. Parlo - High School Biology.
But the best part of my job and my life, is that I get to work with the greatest heroes of all: the WATERKEEPERS!These are just some of their stories:
An Interview with a Waterkeeper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwwcEO5nLKo
Chris from Gas Lake Village, Lake George, NY.
Grand Riverkeeper Labrador http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is_DdqZEtYI
Global Climate Change: John's View http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YI-00qXdOQ
John is our Hurricane Creekkeeper. Findout more about his work and the creek: http://www.hurricanecreek.org/
Hawk Release on Hurricane creek http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMeXNGBVORo
Hawk Release: A Part of the Creek's Restoration.
St. Johns Riverkeeper on Patrol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXKoH0JSYsQ
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.
