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The Gowanus Canal, New York, NY. Credit: brainware3000 on flickr
A half-hour version of this program is available here.
Fresh water is our most essential natural resource. Yet worldwide, more than one billion people don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water. And it’s a sure bet that as water scarcity grows, so too will these alarming numbers. So how can we protect our fresh water resources? Where do we start?
On this edition, from a grassroots toxic canal clean up to a long-standing
watershed war, we’ll hear from U.S. water stewards across the country.
They’re people working to protect and restore our valuable fresh waterways
and to keep water resources part of a shared global commons.
This program is made possible in part by the Park Foundation.
Featuring:
‘Protecting the Tuolumne River’ by Tena Rubio and Rita Daniels
Patrick Koepele, Tuolumne River Trust Deputy Executive Director.
‘Cleaning Up the Gowanus Canal’ by Samara Freemark:
Alex Coveleski, Member, Gowanus Dredgers; Owen Foote, Dredgers Coordinator; Olivia Ford, NYC student, 11 years old; Marco Dashev, Fashion Photographer; Stephen Kline and Beatrice Aranow, First-Time Canoers.
‘Hudson River Corporate Clean-up’ by Amber Cortes
Bonnie Smith, Croton Point Park Beach-Goer; Alex Matthiesson, Riverkeeper Inc. President; Sharon Ruggi, CEASE member.
‘Tri-State Water Wars’ by Marjorie Menzel
Johnny Richards, Franklin County Seafood Workers Association President; Kevin Begos, Franklin County Oyster and Seafood Industry Task Force Executive Director; Dan Tonsmeire, Apalachicola Riverkeeper; Joseph “Smokey” Parrish, Franklin County Commissioner; Anita Grove, Apalachicola Bay Chamber of Commerce Executive Director; Florida Gov. Charlie Crist; Georgia Goveronor Sonny Perdue.
‘Town in Tennessee Runs Out of Water’ by John Sepulvado
Tony Reams, Orme, Tennessee Mayor; Yancy Payne, Orme Resident; Joe Cook, Head of the Coosa Basin River Initiative; Greg Hyde, Kayaker.
‘Droughts in the Southeast’ by The Environment Report‘s Rebecca Williams
Ellen Peterson, Florida Resident; Gary J. Ritter, Lake Okeechobee Area Water Manager; Dr. Peter H. Gleick, Pacific Institute Co-founder and President.
This segment comes from “The Environment Report” which receives its funding from the Park Foundation and the Joyce Foundation.
‘Clean Water Action Interview’
Making Contact‘s Andrew Stelzer interviews Jennifer Clary, Water Policy
Analyst with Clean Water Action.
‘Great Lakes Fish Linked to Diabetes’ by The Environment Report‘s Gabriel Spitzer
Ray Penn and Patrick Duhann, Fishermen; Mary Turick, University of Illinois at Chicago Researcher; Tamara Dupreval, Family Doctor;
This segment comes from The Environment Report which receives funding from the Park Foundation and the Joyce Foundation.
For more information:
Apalachicola Bay Chamber of Commerce
122 Commerce Street
Apalachicola, FL 32320
850-653-9419
anita[at]apalachicolabay.org
www.apalachicolabay.org
Blue Planet Project
c/o The Council of Canadians
170 Laurier Avenue West
Ottawa, ON K1P 5V5
800-387-7177
blueplanet[at]canadians.org
www.blueplanetproject.net/index.html
Citizen Environmentalists Against Sludge Encapsulation (CEASE)
PO Box 388
Hudson Falls, NY 12839
518-321-8380
ceasedredging[at]verizon.net
Clean Water Action (National Office)
4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite A-300
Washington, DC 20008
202-895-0420
www.cleanwateraction.org
Clean Water Network
1200 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20005
202-289-2421
info[at}cwn.org
www.cwn.org/cwn
Earth Justice
223 South King Street, #400
Honolulu, HI 96813
808-599-2436
www.earthjustice.org
Food and Water Watch
1400 16th Street, NW, Suite 225
Washington, DC 20036
202-797-6550
foodandwater[at]fwwatch.org
Franklin County Commissioner
33 Market Street, Suite 203
Apalachicola, FL 32320
850-653-8861
Info[at]franklincountyflorida.com
www.franklincountyflorida.com
Franklin County Seafood Workers Association
Franklin and Marshall College
Department of Earth and Environment
PO Box 3003
Lancaster, PA 17604
717-291-4398
www.fandm.edu/x7870.xml
Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club
PO Box 24403
Brooklyn, NY 11202
www.gowanuscanal.org
The Greywater Action
(Greywater Guerillas)
http://greywateraction.org
La Red Vida
00591-4-4588725
info[at]laredvida.org
www.laredvida.org
Office of Governor Charlie Crist
400 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399
850-488-7146
www.flgov.com
Office of Governor Sonny Perdue
203 State Capitol
Atlanta, GA 30334
404-656-1776
http://gov.georgia.gov
Polaris Institute
180 Metcalfe Street, Suite 500
Ottawa, Ontario Canada
K2P 1P5
866-346-6602
www.polarisinstitute.org/water
Riverkeeper
828 South Broadway
Tarrytown, NY 10591
800-21-RIVER
www.riverkeeper.org
Tuolumne River Trust
67 Linoberg Street, Suite B
Sonora, CA 95370
209-588-8636
www.tuolumne.org/content
University of Louisville
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
The Stream Institute
Louisville, KY 40292
800-334-UofL (8635)
https://louisville.edu/speed/civil/si.html
Water Institute
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
15290 Coleman Valley Road
Occidental, CA 95465
707- 874-1557 x 206
www.oaecwater.org
Additional Information:
Blue Planet Project
170 Laurier Avenue West
Ottawa, ON K1P 5V5
613-233-2773
blueplanet[at]canadians.org
http://www.blueplanetproject.net/index.html
Corporate Accountability International
10 Milk Street, Suite 610
Boston, MA 02108
800-688-8797
info[at]stopcorporateabuse.org
www.stopcorporateabuse.org/water-campaign
Water.org
920 Main Street, Suite 1800
Kansas City, MO 64105
816-877-8400
http://water.org/projects
Blogs, Articles, Links:
Clean Water Act Violations: The Enforcement Record Map
The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/09/13/us/0913-water.html
Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering by Charles Duhigg
The New York Times, Published: September 12, 2009
www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/us/13water.html
Find Water Polluters Near You
The New York Times
http://projects.nytimes.com/toxic-waters/polluters
Harvesting Rain Water — courtesy of YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWnhYIIKY0U
Music:
Blue Grass Bugle by Raymond Fairchild
Slow Blues Instrumental by Buddy Guy
GT Blues by Martin Taylor Gordon Giltrap
Home Sweet Home by Blue Grass Album Band
East St. Louis Toodle-Oo by Steeley Dan
