Protecting Rivers & Your Clean Water
This Election Matters for Rivers
Jim Bradley, Senior Director of Government Relations
November 5, 2012 | Water Pollution
Americans value clean water and healthy rivers. Clean water consistently ranks as the top environmental concern among American voters, according to Gallup. It doesn’t matter whether you live in a blue state or a red state, or whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican – we all need clean water to drink, and we want healthy rivers where we can swim, fish, and paddle with our children and grandchildren.
Read more »The Clean Water Act: Preserving the Past and Improving the Future
Fay Augustyn, Intermountain West Blue Trails Manager
October 23, 2012 | Water Pollution
When you’re growing up everything seems bigger. In elementary school I played in the Gulf Branch stream in Arlington, overlooking the Potomac. My younger self treated the largest pool as a veritable lagoon, a place where I could splash, swim, dive, and dam for as long as I wished, or oftentimes as long as my parents would let me. At the edge of the pool is a steep drop that grants a panoramic view of the Potomac and District of Columbia.
Read more »A Tribute To National Parks
Fay Augustyn, Intermountain West Blue Trails Manager
October 19, 2012 | Water Pollution
As I trek through the tall grass of the high country, I peer off in the distance to see golden plains filled with bison and mountains of epic proportions in the background. The sweet scent of sage greets me as I meander through the brush. With my first step into the stream, I feel the cold mountain water flush into my leaky waders, and I begin casting to rising trout in the current. It all comes back to me as I recall what it’s like to be in Yellowstone.
Read more »Celebrating 40 Years of Clean Water Protections
Stacey Detwiler, Associate, Conservation & Government Relations
October 18, 2012 | Water Pollution
Since the Clean Water Act was enacted in 1972, we've made great strides in cleaning up our rivers, lakes, beaches, and streams - but we still have a long way to go.
Read more »The Clean Water Act Through the Generations: Baby Boomers Generation, Pt. 3
William Robert (Bob) Irvin, President
October 17, 2012 | Water Pollution
Growing up, I spent nearly every summer at my grandparents’ small farm in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. My mother grew up on the same farm. When she was a girl, Acup Creek, the small mountain creek that runs through the farm and is a tributary of the Kentucky River, was filled with crayfish and minnows and was an aquatic playground for Mom and her siblings and cousins.
Read more »The Clean Water Network Celebrates Clean Water Act 40th Anniversary
Stacey Detwiler, Associate, Conservation & Government Relations
October 17, 2012 | Water Pollution
When I was ten years old, I wrote letters to President Lyndon Johnson and New York Mayor John Lindsey. The letters conveyed my ten-year-old sense of outrage about polluted air and water as well as dismay about litter on the streets. My friends and I even made up a song about pollution on our way to an outdoor field trip. My teacher that year had us make a film (no videos back then) about taking care of our natural resources. I played the role of kid who abused the environment. The year was 1968.
Read more »The Clean Water Act through the Generations: Generation X Series, Pt. 3
Katherine Baer, Senior Director, Clean Water and Water Supply Programs
October 16, 2012 | Water Pollution
I’ll never forget the moment as I watched, mouth hanging open, as a tall man nonchalantly wadded up his burger wrapper, stepped into the street, and tossed it directly into a storm drain that led right to the Chattahoochee River. How could he not know that streams in our cities are often right beneath us, hidden and buried away, but still leading to our creeks and eventually our rivers?
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