Riverkeeper history

• The original Riverkeeper was born from the pollution in New York’s Hudson River, where a group of environmentalists, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. banded together to clean up the waterway.

• In 1983, environmentalist John Cronin was tapped to become the official Hudson watchdog known as the Riverkeeper.

• The effort spawned other Riverkeeper organizations across the world.

• Those Riverkeepers, about 183 so far, are supported by an umbrella group know as The Waterkeeper Alliance.

• Together, the groups fight to stop pollution.

• More information is available at: www.waterkeeper.org., or just click on the fish!

Charles Scribner’s 2005 thesis, The History of Waterkeeper Alliance: An International Grassroots Movement Flows from the Hudson; Waterkeeper Alliance

History of the Riverkeeper