The heroic efforts of river, bay and soundkeepers from Alaska to North Carolina

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. leads the nation’s fastest-growing grassroots environmental organization, the Waterkeeper Alliance. Like an environmental “Neighborhood Watch” program, waterkeepers take polluters to court, respond to citizens’ complaints about water pollution, identify problems that affect rivers, bays, lakes and streams; devise appropriate remedies and act as living witnesses to the condition of local ecosystems. Waterkeepers have helped to clean up and protect hundreds of water bodies around the world from pollution and dirty industries.

THE WATERKEEPERS chronicles the heroic efforts of river, bay and soundkeepers from Alaska to North Carolina. Their hands-on public advocacy environmentalism has become a model for ecosystem protection: citizens defending the ecosystems in which they live.

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The Waterkeepers

Release Year: 2000

Duration: 47 min

Availability: Worldwide

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. leads the nation’s fastest-growing grassroots environmental organization, the Waterkeeper Alliance. Like an environmental “Neighborhood Watch” program, waterkeepers take polluters to court, respond to citizens’ complaints about water pollution, identify problems that affect rivers, bays, lakes and streams; devise appropriate remedies and act as living witnesses to the condition of local ecosystems. Waterkeepers have helped to clean up and protect hundreds of water bodies around the world from pollution and dirty industries.

THE WATERKEEPERS chronicles the heroic efforts of river, bay and soundkeepers from Alaska to North Carolina. Their hands-on public advocacy environmentalism has become a model for ecosystem protection: citizens defending the ecosystems in which they live.

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Posted 10/22/09 by giesekaseem

i love this video it is so cool

Posted 04/07/09 by Ann Guiles

Surprised there was not a big section on FL, again, another item of urgency which needs billions of tax dollars to resolve. The march of problems, left over from the neglect of the previous 2 centuries if overwhelming.
The hog farming, which has occurred in the last 20 years, as well as the chicken, egg industry are major polluter’s, perhaps limiting our population growth would be a 1st step. Demand is stripping us of natural assets, in the quest to entitle us to the “good life”, plentiful, cheap food, entertainment, plenty of parks and waterways. We are overwhelming these resources by our presence. How can we reverse this damage while fighting the greed and legitimate need?

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