Protecting Rivers & Your Clean Water
The Clean Water Act Through the Generations: Baby Boomers Generation
Elizabeth Soderstrom, Ph.D., Senior Director of Development
October 4, 2012 | Water Pollution
The River Charles, as we called it, is a long, lazy river that flows through 22 towns in Massachusetts before it reaches Boston Harbor. As sewage, industrial wastewater and urban runoff flowed freely into the river from the surrounding cities, the Charles River became well known for its high level of pollutants, so that by 1955, Bernard DeVoto wrote in Harper's Magazine that the Charles was "foul and noisome, polluted by offal and industrious wastes, scummy with oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water."
Read more »What’s Happening on the Kansas River?
Jessie Thomas-Blate, Coordinator, Most Endangered Rivers
October 3, 2012 | Water Pollution, Most Endangered Rivers, Blue Trails
This has been a really eventful year for Friends of the Kaw and the Kansas River. The Kaw made national attention for being listed as one of America’s Most Endangered Rivers® for 2012 due to proposed expansion of commercial mining for sand.
Read more »Fishing with Dad
Steve White, Associate Director, The Anglers Fund and Southeast Region Development
October 3, 2012 | Water Pollution
Like many of the people I fish with these days, I grew up fishing. My dad taught me about salt water fish when we lived in Florida and then about largemouth bass and trout when we moved to North Carolina. While we liked all kinds of fishing, we pretty quickly settled into trout fishing in the mountains as our favorite.
Read more »The Clean Water Act Through the Generations Blog Series
Katherine Baer, Senior Director, Clean Water and Water Supply Programs
October 1, 2012 | Water Pollution
This year marks the 40th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act (CWA). This landmark environmental law protects and maintains the integrity of our nation’s waterways and is the foundation on which American Rivers was built.
Read more »White House Conference on Green Infrastructure
Katherine Baer, Senior Director, Clean Water and Water Supply Programs
September 27, 2012 | Water Pollution
Last week I had the great opportunity to attend and speak at a White House Conference on Green Infrastructure convened by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the Environmental Protection Agency designed to bring together leaders in this area to figure out how to move forward the smart use of rain gardens, green roofs, permeable pavement and other techniques as a key strategy for clean water and vibrant communities. The level of energy in the room was high all day, from the welcoming remarks by CEQ’s Nancy Sutley, all the way through to the final break-out reports.
Read more »Groups Seal Deal to Protect Transboundary Flathead River
Scott Bosse, Director, Northern Rockies
September 20, 2012 | Water Pollution, Most Endangered Rivers, Wild and Scenic Rivers
Last week, The Nature Conservancy of Montana and the Nature Conservancy of Canada announced they had raised the $10 million needed to buy out existing mining rights and implement new environmental protections along the North Fork of the Flathead River. The buyout comes on the heels of legislation the British Columbian parliament passed in 2010 to protect the North Fork from all forms of mining and oil and gas drilling.
Read more »Indian Valley Meadow Restoration project
Luke Hunt, Ph.D., Director, Headwaters Conservation
September 20, 2012 | Water Pollution
This fall, to reduce the water footprint of their bottling plant east of San Francisco, Coca-Cola is teaming up with American Rivers, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the US Forest Service and others to restore the Indian Valley meadow on the Sierra Crest, in the headwaters of the Mokelumne River. The Mokelumne River flows from Indian Valley meadow at 8,000 feet elevation and supplies clean water to people, fish and wildlife on its course to the bay.
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