Our Coalition
We are a broad-based coalition of national, state and local conservation groups striving to protect rivers from the rising tide of sewage pollution. As a crucial first step toward this goal, together we seek to win passage of legislation in the U.S. Congress that will help reduce the annual number of human illnesses and deaths from contact with sewage by requiring public notification of sewer spills and overflows into waterways.
Through this collaborative effort, we also seek to advance and expand the river movement’s collective knowledge and experience on sewage pollution threats to our nation’s rivers. Our motto: Many Rivers. One Voice.
History of Campaign
Act for Healthy Rivers has its roots in an earlier collaborative effort, which culminated in the creation of the Citizen’s Agenda for Rivers: A Grassroots Movement to Protect and Restore the Health of Our Rivers and Watersheds. Created by and for the river movement, the Citizen’s Agenda for Rivers set forth proactive steps for decision-makers to keep America’s rivers healthy. That broad agenda is now entering a new phase with Act for Healthy Rivers, focused on a signature campaign to fight sewage pollution.
Read the Citizen’s Agenda for Rivers: A Grassroots Movement to Protect and Restore the Health of Our Rivers and Watersheds.
Steering Committee
Act for Healthy Rivers is led by American Rivers, with guidance from a steering committee comprised of experienced and committed river leaders from the following organizations:
Josh Klein
American Rivers
1101 14th St. NW Suite 1400
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 347-7550
jklein@americanrivers.org
Don Elder
River Network
520 SW 6th Avenue, #1130
Portland, OR 97204
(503) 241-3506
delder@rivernetwork.orgEddie Scher
Waterkeeper Alliance
828 South Broadway, Suite 100
Tarrytown, NY 10591
(914) 674-0622
escher@waterkeeper.orgDenny Caneff
River Alliance of Wisconsin
306 E Wilson Street, 2W
Madison, WI 53703
(608) 257-2424
dcaneff@wisconsinrivers.orgBruce Carpenter
New York Rivers United
P.O. Box 1460
Rome, NY 13442
(315) 339-2097
bruce_carpenter@newyorkriversunited.orgJason Rainey
South Yuba River Citizen's League
216 Main Street
Nevada City, CA 95959
(530) 265-5961 x 207
jason@syrcl.orgJim Waltman
Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association
31 Titus Mill Road
Pennington, NJ 08534
(609) 737-3735
jwaltman@thewatershed.orgRenee Hoyos
Tennessee Clean Water Network
Box 1521
Knoxville, TN 37901
(865) 522-7007
renee@tcwn.orgHilary Lambert
Kentucky Waterways Alliance
720B Aurora Avenue
Lexington, KY 40502
(859) 255-8216
hilary@kwalliance.org
