Protecting Rivers & Your Clean Water
Plastic, Plastic Everywhere…
March 2, 2012 | Water Pollution, National River Cleanup...with more than enough to spare. As part of the National River Cleanup® efforts we ask our organizers to fill out a post-event survey once the river cleanup is over. We collect this information to better understand what types of trash are polluting our waterways. Can you take a wild guess what the number one item of trash found in the river was in 2011?
Read more »Be the Change in 2012: Register with National River Cleanup®
February 13, 2012 | Water Pollution, National River CleanupThe time has come.
Embrace your inner community-organizer roots and organize a river cleanup in 2012.
Read more »Be the Change in 2012: Register with National River Cleanup®
February 13, 2012 | Water Pollution, National River CleanupThe time has come.
Embrace your inner community-organizer roots and organize a river cleanup in 2012.
Read more »Five New Year’s resolutions for rivers
December 27, 2011 | Water Pollution, National River CleanupHow do you make a great New Year’s resolution? Make it practical, make it public, and make it matter. With this in mind, we’ve created a list of easy-to-keep river resolutions for 2012. Each one can fit easily into your life, and will benefit both you and the world around you.
Read more »Congratulations 2011 National River Cleanup Photo Contest Winner!
December 13, 2011 | National River CleanupAmerican Rivers would like to congratulate the National River Cleanup® Ohio River Sweep participants in submitting the best photo of 2011! Jeanne Ison of the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission, submitted this photo of her adorable granddaughter, Christina Crouch, age 3. Their family both organizes and participates in this cleanup every year and together Jeanne, Misti and her daughter Christina, represent three generations out on the river!
Read more »Taking out the trash with REI
December 5, 2011 | National River CleanupOn a cool, crisp morning in late September, I had the privilege of joining 150 REI employees, local organizations, volunteers and citizens of Bedford County on the banks the Raystown Branch of the Juniata River in Pennsylvania. This annual river cleanup is made possible thanks our generous sponsors, REI.
Read more »Rivers in November: By The Numbers
Amy Souers Kober, Senior Director of Communications
November 23, 2011 | Water Pollution, Floods & Floodplains, National River Cleanup
A look at river conservation in November, by the numbers.
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