San Diego Coastkeeper
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San Diego Coastkeeper is a grassroots
environmental 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that advocates for clean water throughout San Diego county. Coastkeeper is San Diego’s official agency of the international Waterkeeper Alliance
, which works to protect the world’s waterways.
s and ocean for the people and wildlife that depend on them. It promotes stewardship of clean water and a healthy coastal ecosystem using community outreach, education, and advocacy.
Letter with 300+ Groups Ask Senate for Stronger Climate Bill, included the California Coastkeeper Alliance.
that transformed a once-thriving ecosystem into a highly toxic waterbody. Baykeeper became the 15th approved Waterkeeper program in the country.
In 2005, San Diego Baykeeper became San Diego Coastkeeper, whose mission now encompasses protecting all of San Diego County’s bays, beaches, watersheds and ocean.
Grassroots
A grassroots movement is one driven by the politics of a community. The term implies that the creation of the movement and the group supporting it are natural and spontaneous, highlighting the differences between this and a movement that is orchestrated by traditional power structures...
environmental 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that advocates for clean water throughout San Diego county. Coastkeeper is San Diego’s official agency of the international Waterkeeper Alliance
Waterkeeper Alliance
Waterkeeper Alliance is an environmental organization founded in 1999, responding to a growing movement of organizations with the name Riverkeeper, Baykeeper, Soundkeeper, and other related "keeper" names, of which there are over 150 around the globe...
, which works to protect the world’s waterways.
Mission
San Diego Coastkeeper aims to protect the region’s bays, beaches, watershedDrainage basin
A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...
s and ocean for the people and wildlife that depend on them. It promotes stewardship of clean water and a healthy coastal ecosystem using community outreach, education, and advocacy.
Letter with 300+ Groups Ask Senate for Stronger Climate Bill, included the California Coastkeeper Alliance.
History
San Diego Coastkeeper was launched in 1995 as San Diego Baykeeper in order to combat chronic pollution of San Diego BaySan Diego Bay
San Diego Bay is a natural harbor and deepwater port adjacent to San Diego, California. It is 12 mi/19 km long, 1 mi/1.6 km–3 mi/4.8 km wide...
that transformed a once-thriving ecosystem into a highly toxic waterbody. Baykeeper became the 15th approved Waterkeeper program in the country.
In 2005, San Diego Baykeeper became San Diego Coastkeeper, whose mission now encompasses protecting all of San Diego County’s bays, beaches, watersheds and ocean.