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• Hidden Reservoir: Why Water Efficiency Is The Best Solution For The Southeast

  The Southeast United States faces unprecedented challenges to its water supply. Growing populations and the impacts of climate change are putting new strains on communities and their rivers. Our local leaders are facing the pressing question of how to ensure a clean, reliable water supply for current and future generations. Traditionally, building more dams and […]

• Hidden Reservoir: Why Water Efficiency Is The Best Solution For The Southeast

  The Southeast United States faces unprecedented challenges to its water supply. Growing populations and the impacts of climate change are putting new strains on communities and their rivers. Our local leaders are facing the pressing question of how to ensure a clean, reliable water supply for current and future generations. Traditionally, building more dams and […]

• Chief Financial Officer

  About American RiversFor over 50 years, American Rivers has been a leader in protecting and restoring rivers throughout the country. With climate change, unnecessary dams, water pollution, floods, outdated policies, and lack of stakeholder awareness, our rivers are in crisis. American Rivers tackles these challenges head on.   American Rivers takes a practical, inclusive approach, which […]

• Banking on Green: A Look at How Green Infrastructure Can Save Municipalities Money and Provide Economic Benefits Community-wide

  Across the country, communities are struggling with how to fix and replace failing and outdated infrastructure and meet new demand to manage stormwater and protect clean water. American Rivers worked with the American Society of Landscape Architects, ECONorthwest, and the Water Environment Federation to release the “BANKING ON GREEN” report to build on the current […]

• Running Dry: Restoring Healthy Flows In Georgia’s Upper Flint River Basin

  The upper Flint River of west-central Georgia is a river running dry. While rivers and streams in arid parts of the United States often dry up seasonally, the Southeast has historically been known as a water-rich area with plentiful rainfall, lush landscapes, and perennial streams and rivers. The upper Flint River supports recreation, fisheries, local […]

• Money Pit: The High Cost And High Risk Of Water Supply Reservoirs In The Southeast

  Securing reliable supplies of clean water for today and the future is a critical concern for communities across the country, and particularly in the Southeast, where communities are grappling with water scarcity issues more than ever before. This report documents the financial risks and water resource risks tied to the development of new water supply […]

• The Upper Flint River Working Group: Ensuring Water Security for People and Nature

  As climate change continues to roll out new and increasingly unpredictable conditions all over the country, it’s becoming clear that, for some communities, water scarcity is a problem that isn’t going to be solved when the weather “goes back to normal.” This is especially true when extremes of flood and drought are compounded by landscape […]

• Funding Green Infrastructure in Pennsylvania

  A twist on a familiar adage amongst water managers is “when it rains, it drains.” While not unique to Pennsylvania, in suburban and urban municipalities, centuries of strong growth, including recent decades of sprawl, have transformed much of the state’s natural land cover into extensive impervious surface. As a result, instead of soaking into soils […]

• The Hardest Working River in the West: Common-Sense Solutions for a Reliable Water Future for the Colorado River Basin

  The majestic Colorado River cuts a 1,450-mile path through the American West before drying up well short of its natural finish line at the Gulf of California. Reservoirs once filled to the brim from the river and its tributaries are at historic lows due to an unprecedented drought and growing human demands. Diminished stream flows […]

• Value of Partnerships in Reducing MS4 Compliance Cost

  Across the nation, municipal stormwater managers face financial burdens as they work to manage stormwater flows that jeopardize the health and safety of communities and the availability of clean water. Decreased federal funding for stormwater management in recent decades has resulted in local communities shouldering most of the rising costs to protect the nation’s water […]

• Our Power is Rivers

  There is an ongoing debate in the Pacific Northwest around whether hydropower as a whole is “good” or “bad”. But this conversation misses important details and nuance. There are thousands of dams blocking rivers across the Northwest. Many dams provide energy, transportation, flood control, and irrigation. But many are causing more harm than good – […]

• Dam Removal on the Klamath River

  “Dam removal is the best way to bring a river back to life. The Klamath is significant not only because it is the biggest dam removal and river restoration effort in history, but because it shows that we can right historic wrongs and make big, bold dreams a reality for our rivers and communities.”    -Dr. Ann […]

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