AW Endorses the Citizen’s Agenda For Rivers

The Citizen’s Agenda For Rivers was developed as a policy platform for river conservation, and can be found at: (http://www.healthyrivers.org/read.html).  The agenda is a blueprint for action for federal and state decision makers and outlines some 30 state and federal actions that can be taken to protect water quality, ensure enough water for people and rivers, and protect watersheds by managing the effects of sprawl.  The document has been written to remind our elected and appointed officials that rivers and streams matter — and that protecting them is one of the responsibilities that goes with leadership.  More than 200 groups have already endorsed the agenda – including American Whitewater.   By endorsing the agenda, we have joined a large coalition of organizations broadly supportive of strong clean water law and policies, sensible water conservation, and sound watershed development practices. 

The collective power of this strongly supported platform is a show of force, demonstrating to America’s leaders that there is a broad movement of organizations and individual activists who care deeply about healthy rivers and healthy communities.   We hope to show leaders that protecting rivers is smart politics, and that the river conservationists they hear from have a broad movement of citizen activists behind them.

We would like to thank the steering committee members who drafted this platform, and are proud to join them in our collective efforts to protect and restore rivers.