Protecting Rivers & Your Clean Water
Most Endangered Rivers Launch Takes Off
Jessie Thomas-Blate, Coordinator, Most Endangered Rivers
May 18, 2011 | Most Endangered Rivers, Floods & Floodplains, Fracking, Dams & Dam Removal, Water Supply, Wild and Scenic Rivers
Launch of America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2011 is a success.
Read more »Most Endangered Rivers of 2011 Announced Today!
Jessie Thomas-Blate, Coordinator, Most Endangered Rivers
May 17, 2011 | Most Endangered Rivers, Floods & Floodplains, Water Pollution, Water Supply
American Rivers announces its 2011 list of America’s Most Endangered Rivers.
Read more »Room for Rivers: Community Snapshots of Natural Defenses in Action
May 12, 2011 | Floods & FloodplainsAs floods spread south along the Mississippi River, one thing is clear that although we can’t do away with gray infrastructure all together, we can and must look at the landscape for a new paradigm for how nature can store flood waters often better and cheaper.
Read more »Mississippi floods: the Year of the River
Amy Souers Kober, Senior Director of Communications
May 11, 2011 | Floods & Floodplains
We watch with fear, awe, and sorrow as the river destroys property and creates painful upheaval for people’s lives and businesses. The economic toll of the floods will be staggering. This is turning out to be quite a year for rivers, and apparently we still have a lot to learn when it comes to living with them.
Read more »Rivers Aren’t a Problem to be Solved
May 5, 2011 | Floods & Floodplains[Part 2 of a series on the floods in the Midwest] Throughout much of American history, rivers have been treated as problems that must be “solved” through large scale and expensive engineering projects. As a result, rivers have been clogged with dams, straightened, channelized, and cut off from their floodplains by levees, and even buried underground by agricultural drainage “tiles”.
Read more »Securing Clean Drinking Water in an Uncertain Future
Katherine Baer, Senior Director, Clean Water and Water Supply Programs
March 9, 2011 | Water Pollution, Floods & Floodplains, Climate Change, Water Supply, Stormwater & Sewage
Floods, droughts, and now cholera? While we know that climate change will increase the frequency and severity of extreme weather, scientists report that this increase in extreme stormwater could “set the stage for a return of cholera to North America.” Drinking water and sewage treatment plants are often the ones to bear the brunt of climate change as increased flooding overwhelms treatment plants and causes sewer overflows.
Read more »Restoring a brook that sustained the Pilgrims
November 8, 2010 | Water Pollution, Dams & Dam Removal, Floods & FloodplainsWhile nearly everyone who grew up in the United States knows the story of the Mayflower and the Pilgrims coming to Plymouth, Massachusetts, not everyone knows why they landed where they did. A big part of that decision was a spring-fed stream that they called Town Brook.
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