Waterkeeper Currents

NOVEMBER 2024

Waterkeeper Alliance’s 2024 Impact Report

We proudly released our 2024 Impact Report: Collective Actions for Clean Water! This year, we celebrated 25 years of advancing our mission to protect the right to clean water by achieving victories against major threats to water quality, safeguarding vulnerable communities from environmental harm, and amplifying the collective power of our global water movement. Thank you for your unwavering support and commitment! Together, we’re turning the tide for clean water.

Series Two of Equity In Every Drop Focuses on Factory Farms

In this latest episode, we are joined by Dr. Michael A. Mallin, a research professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and Cape Fear Riverkeeper Kemp Burdette, to discuss the impacts to water quality, ecosystems, and public health from factory farms. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts!

Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to U.S. Presidential Election

In response to the 2024 U.S. presidential election outcome, Waterkeeper Alliance CEO Marc Yaggi released a statement urging strong, science-based actions to protect American waterways, public health, and economic resilience. As part of this call to action, Waterkeeper Alliance introduced its clean water policy agenda for the incoming Trump administration, outlining key priorities to advance water protections, safeguard health, and promote economic prosperity.

Waterkeeper Alliance Delivers COP29 Statement

As countries gathered for the first day of the COP29 Baku Conference, Waterkeeper Alliance delivered a statement to the UNFCCC calling for immediate action to address the root cause of the climate emergency: the ongoing expansion of fossil fuels. With escalating climate impacts and extreme weather disasters disproportionately harming vulnerable populations around the world, the statement urges countries to pursue an immediate Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to remain within a 1.5°C trajectory and directly confront climate destabilization.

Who Is Waterkeeper: Xiaojing Wei, Upper Yellow River Waterkeeper

The latest profile features Xiaojing Wei, Upper Yellow River Waterkeeper in China. Her work centers around protecting the natural beauty of her home province, while also empowering her neighbors with an environmentally-sustainable economic future.


Copyright © 2024 Waterkeeper Alliance, All rights reserved.


Contact Us:

Waterkeeper Alliance

180 Maiden Lane, Suite 603

New York, NY 10038

+1 (212) 747-0622

[email protected]


Want to change how you receive these emails?

You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.


Waterkeeper Alliance, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with Top-

Rated status on Charity Watch, a Four Star Charity rating from Charity

Navigator, and Platinum Participant status on GuideStar.