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Flooding and injustice are deeply linked — particularly during a pandemic
Throughout the Carolinas, our communities were built based on practices that located Black, Latinx and Indigenous communities in less-valuable and often flood-prone areas.
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Illinois Floodplains Work: A Feasibility Study
Flood-related threats to health, safety and property are among the most pressing climate change issues in Illinois. Unfortunately, actions to reduce flood risk are not keeping pace with the need to protect people, infrastructure and economies. To build more resilient communities in Illinois, we need a new approach. To accommodate the predicted increase in precipitation, […]
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Environmental and Conservation Groups Applaud U.S. House of Representatives for passage of the Water Resources Development Act.
August 4, 2020 Contact: Olivia Dorothy, American Rivers, (217) 390-3658 (East Moline, IL)David Stokes, Great Rivers Habitat Alliance, (314) 918-1007 (St. Louis, MO)Ryan Grosso, Prairie Rivers Network, (815) 954-7920 (Champaign, IL)Jim Karpowicz, Missouri Coalition for the Environment, (573) 424-0077 (St. Louis, MO)Barry Drazkowski, Izaak Walton League, (507) 458-6642 (Fountain City, WI)Trevor Russell, Friends of the Mississippi […]
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Who Was George I. Haight and Why is He Now Relevant to the Colorado River Basin?
As the Colorado basin grapples with climate change, shortages and declining reservoir levels, we revisit one of the critical legal milestones in the evolution of “the Law of the River.”
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Major Victory for the Gila River, America’s Most Endangered River of 2019
June 22, 2020 Contact: Sinjin Eberle, 720-373-0864 In a major victory for one of the Southwest’s last major free flowing rivers, the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission voted 7-2 on Friday to end work on the Environmental Impact Statement for the Gila River diversion. The threat of the diversion spurred American Rivers to name the […]
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Rivers As Economic Engines: Investing in Clean Water, Communities and Our Future
We are at a pivotal moment in time. In the wake of COVID-19, Congress has made — and is considering additional — investments to jump-start the economy and bring the millions of unemployed Americans back to work. At the same time, Congress has a historic opportunity to make significant investments in our crumbling infrastructure, which […]
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Restoration supports Revenue
Your river could also be your economic engine.
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We Are Rivers Podcast: We Can Make a Lot Happen When We Have a Plan
Join us for a two-part miniseries of our podcast series We Are Rivers. We’ll learn more about Stream Management Plans, an innovative planning tool prioritized in Colorado’s Water Plan, from people working with stakeholder groups and communities across Colorado to put them in place.
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Mississippi River Named America’s #1 Most Endangered River
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Big Sunflower River named among America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2020
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Rivers connect us
“Time is a river. That river is always in motion. And motion is hope.” – Alex Dimitrov
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Dam Safety for Downstream Safety: Revisiting the Oroville Dam Spillway Failure
In the face of aging infrastructure and climate change, we need to be more proactive about making updates to the structures we rely on.