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LA WATERkeeper

Los Angeles Waterkeeper is an organization of Waterkeeper Alliance, the world’s fastest growing environmental movement. Along with 300 other Waterkeeper Organizations, their movement works for swimmable, drinkable and fishable waterways worldwide.

For a quarter-century, Los Angeles Waterkeeper (LA Waterkeeper) has served as LA’s water watchdog, safeguarding our inland and coastal waters using the law, science and community action. They work to eliminate pollution, achieve ecosystem health for our waterways and secure a resilient, multi-benefit, low-carbon water supply to the region.

resources from LA WATERkeeper

Los Angeles Waterkeeper is an organization of Waterkeeper Alliance, the world’s fastest growing environmental movement. Along with 300 other Waterkeeper Organizations, their movement works for swimmable, drinkable and fishable waterways worldwide.

For a quarter-century, Los Angeles Waterkeeper (LA Waterkeeper) has served as LA’s water watchdog, safeguarding our inland and coastal waters using the law, science and community action. They work to eliminate pollution, achieve ecosystem health for our waterways and secure a resilient, multi-benefit, low-carbon water supply to the region.

Take Action – Conserve water

Aqueduct in California LA Waterkeeper News

LA Waterkeeper is a proud partner of Dashboard.Earth. Together, we are delivering localized, personalized climate actions for your home and community through the convenience of an app. When you join the app, you’ll discover resources, actions, rebates and more, personally recommended by LA Waterkeeper, that will help you save water and save money, and help LA meet its ambitious climate goals. 

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Pollution Prevention

la river

LA Waterkeeper collaborates with local organizations, community groups, and volunteers from highly impacted communities throughout LA to help identify violating facilities and advocate for healthier waterways. Through our Community Water Watch program, we seek to ensure that community members living in LA’s most impacted industrial areas have the tools, training, and resources to identify toxic runoff and hold polluters and regulators accountable.

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healthy habitats

oil spill on beach

LA Waterkeeper’s ‘Healthy Habitats’ work seeks to achieve ecosystem health and resiliency for all the region’s waters so they can support the communities and wildlife that depend on them. Through Healthy Habitats, LA Waterkeeper seeks to undo the harms done and restore our coastal and riparian habitats through research, fieldwork, community engagement, broad-based coalition building and regulatory and legal advocacy and policy work. 

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changing systems

Los Angeles city view

LA Waterkeeper’s ‘Systems Change’ work aims to promote a ‘4R’ (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Restore) approach to provide local water supplies. Specifically, this means advocating for greater conservation, stormwater reuse, wastewater recycling and groundwater remediation, while fighting high carbon and unaffordable options like the ocean desalination project proposed along the Santa Monica Bay.

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