Episode 3 of the Waterkeeper Alliance Podcast Now Streaming!
This next installment of Equity In Every Drop, a podcast from Waterkeeper Alliance, highlights the ongoing crisis on the Colorado River, with input from John Weisheit of Colorado Riverkeeper and Daryl Vigil of Water and Tribes Initiative.
Catawba College and Waterkeeper Alliance Partner Again on Advocacy Boot Camp 2024
The Catawba College Center for the Environment-Waterkeeper Alliance Clean Water Advocacy Boot Camp recently concluded. This unique and immersive ten day-course afforded students the opportunity to learn both in the classroom and in the field.
Photo Credit: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual Library
Waterkeeper Alliance, Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, and Local Crawfish Producers Bring Lawsuit to Challenge East Grand Lake Project in the Atchafalaya Basin
A plaintiff group, including Waterkeeper Alliance, Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, the Louisiana Crawfish Producers Association-West, Healthy Gulf, Sierra Club and its Delta Chapter, filed a lawsuit to challenge the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ approval of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority’s East Grand Lake project in the Atchafalaya Basin.
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) recently submitted a budget request for PFAS cleanup at military installations. Despite the many dangers PFAS present, the DoD is only asking for $1.6 billion, with less than $300 million allocated for PFAS cleanup. However, the Pentagon’s own estimate suggests that $38 billion will be needed to remove these toxic forever chemicals. At that rate, it would take DoD roughly 126 years to clean up PFAS contamination.
It should not take ‘forever’, or even more than a century, for the U.S. government to clean up these ‘forever chemicals.’
Liliana Guerrero is the Bocas de Ceniza Waterkeeper in Colombia.
Liliana learned about the Waterkeeper movement while working as a law professor in Cartagena and decided she wanted to apply this work to her hometown of Barranquilla.
