Waterkeeper Magazine | Volume 17 Tackling the greatest environmental threats of our time.
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Volume 17
Climate Problems Meet Climate Solutions

Waterkeeper Alliance isn’t a movement that just identifies problems; we also solve them. And that’s what Waterkeeper groups around the world are doing in the face of climate change — growing oysters in Hawaii, preserving carbon sinks in Cambodia, restoring mangroves in Vietnam, stopping fossil fuel infrastructure projects in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, and addressing water security in Southern California. 

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Restoration

Using, Not Abusing, Mother Nature


Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper is restoring shorelines along the Buffalo and Niagara rivers to stop erosion, restore wildlife habitat, and filter certain types of pollution — like lawn fertilizer and pet waste — before they reach waterways. 

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Read Now: Australia’s Government Heeds the Yarra River’s Call of the Wild

Read Now: Native Oysters Return to Their Namesake Waters: Pearl Harbor

Preservation

You Will Not Dam This Holy River


Nepal’s Karnali River is one of the longest undammed rivers on Earth, and Karnali Riverkeeper Megh Ale has devoted his life to making sure it stays that way.

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Read Now: Preserving Cambodia’s Watery “Soul”

Read Now: Rio Mapacho Waterkeeper Makes a Stand for Peru’s Majestic Glaciers

Read Now: New Hope for Climate Protection on the Hudson — and Beyond

Education & Leadership

Greening China’s Test-Frenzied Classrooms


Qiantang River Waterkeeper’s River Angels program, one of the first of its kind, offers China’s schoolchildren a chance to get involved in the country’s efforts to improve its air, water, soil, and ecology.

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Read Now: To Fight Climate Change, Look to the Trees

Read Now: Ridding Baltimore’s Waters of a Plague of Pollutants

Read Now: Leading the Fight Against Climate Change in Cartagena de Indias

Polluting Infrastructure

The Thin Green Line


How a Grassroots Movement Fought Fossil Fuel Exports in the Pacific Northwest — and Won.

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Read Now: Let Our Rivers Run Free: Dam Removal in Sweden

Read Now: Dams are a Climate Disaster

Read Now: It Takes a Village…to Say No to Coal

Regulatory Wins

Groundbreaking Legal Victory Could Change Water Management in California


Los Angeles Waterkeeper’s constitutional challenge could pave the way for massive water recycling in the Golden State.

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Read Now: Putting People and Nature First in Texas’s Petrochemical Corridor

Read Now: Ending the Dangerous Folly of Nuclear Power in South Florida

Read Now: Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change in the Heartland

Innovation
Turning a Water Crisis into a Path to Peace

Letter from the Executive Director


In a movement of problem solvers, EcoPeace Middle East, home to the three Jordan River Waterkeeper groups in Israel, Jordan, and Palestine, is pursuing a plan so visionary and audacious that it offers all of us a paradigm for tackling climate change.

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Waterkeeper Magazine puts readers on the front lines of the planetary environmental crisis with more than 350 local Waterkeeper groups on six continents fighting for their rivers, lakes, and coastal waters—and for the planet. These amazing advocates have dedicated their lives to protecting clean water and the irreplaceable water sources for nearly a billion people.
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