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Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama’s water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.

Click here to read a summary of our 2023 – 2027 Strategic Plan.

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ARA and SELC submit comments for the R.L. Harris Dam relicensing on the Tallapoosa River
ARA on Evolve America’s Set In Stone podcast
ARA’s 2024 Impact Report!
The 2025 Legislative Session Starts Today (February 4)!

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It's a wild few weeks coming up for Alabama Rivers

It's a wild few weeks coming up for Alabama Rivers Alliance! We hope you'll join us along the way as we #DefendRivers across the state!

First up is #AlabamaWaterRally, the largest gathering of clean water advocates in the state! Deadline to register is in three days - you don't want to miss this awesome gathering of the best folks around!

Next is #RiversOfAlabamaDay, the day designated by the state legislature and the @cityofmontgomery. Once again we need your voice in #Montgomery as we talk to our elected officials about issues that matter - #CleanWater for all Alabamians!

After that, we'll celebrate our 132,000 miles of rivers and streams with our friends at @friendsofthealabamariver, @alabama_scenic_river_trail, @andrewsformgm7 and Alabama River Foundation at @redbluffmgm!

We'll finish out #EarthMonth with two more #SouthernExposure Film screenings in #Montvallo with our friends at @cahabariverkeeper and in #Huntsville with @hsv_environment!

Grab your calendars now - we'll wait - and save these dates! More info about all these and more at our link in bio.

#DefendRivers #WaterIsLife #AlabamaRivers #AlabamaOutdoors #ALPolitics

Auburn / Opelika! We can't wait to bring the new S

Auburn / Opelika! We can't wait to bring the new Southern Exposure Films to you tomorrow evening with our friends at @ausustain, @alabama_water_watch, @auburnwater, Auburn Outdoors and Tallapoosa Watershed Coalition!

Due to the winds and colder temps, we're headed inside at Pebble Hill. We'll still have partner mix and mingle, delicious hot chocolate, popcorn, S'mores and more! Bring your own mug and reusable cup and get ready for an awesome night of film and conversation. Learn more at the link in bio.

#Auburn #AuburnOutdoors #auburnuniversity #PebbleHill #AuburnTigers #Opelika #OpelikaAL #AlabamaRivers #DefendRivers #WaterIsLife #SouthernExposureFilms #FilmAlabama #AlabamaFilm #sustainability

It's been another whirlwind of a couple of weeks a

It's been another whirlwind of a couple of weeks at ARA! Cindy was a keynote speaker at the Lake Watch of Lake Martin annual meeting on Sunday, where she talked about - you guessed it! - how Alabama needs a water plan! She also moderated The League of Women Voters Gulf Coast Convening panel on climate, resilience and affordability in Mobile, and led a discussion at the Alabama Association of Nonprofits in Montgomery.

Charles attended the student-led New Directions in Environmental Law conference at Yale School of Law, where leading experts from across the country discussed the changing federal landscape, state responses, and novel approaches to protect aquatic resources in our changing climate.

Led by Jack, ARA recently filed comments on the draft environmental impact statement for the Harris Dam relicensing on the Tallapoosa River advocating for improved flows, water quality enhancements, adaptive management, and improved recreation access. Our awesome partners at SELC joined our comments. Martha also worked directly with landowners and community leaders to help make their voices heard by FERC by filing their own comments. We expect a Final EIS later this year, which will form the basis for the final FERC license. You can read our comments on our website!

V has been busy hitting the books and keeping a close eye on the federal mess surrounding water infrastructure funding, and Kelly has been busy busy planning more ways for communities and decision-makers to see the award winning Southern Exposure Films!

Applications are open now for #SouthernExposure 20

Applications are open now for #SouthernExposure 2025!

Emerging documentary filmmakers, apply today for this unique and PAID film fellowship in the beautiful South!

Now in its 13th year, Southern Exposure Films provides a positive and challenging learning experience to exceptional film students and emerging filmmakers from across the country seeking to explore and develop their talent as environmental advocates through nonfiction storytelling. This innovative summer fellowship equips students with the skills, equipment, content knowledge and community contacts to create authentic, engaging, inspiring films intended to raise public awareness about important issues facing Alabama’s environment -- from the mountains to the coast. The selected fellows will use their skills and talents to serve local communities and the environmental organizations that support them.

The selected film fellows will spend the summer working in partnership with Alabama Rivers Alliance’s partner groups and other state environmental organizations, who will guide film topics and crucial community contacts to help the fellows create the short documentaries that will be most useful for raising awareness and advocating for the protection of Alabama’s special places.

The films are screened at events throughout #Alabama, and have been featured in #filmfestivals across the country and beyond.

The application guidelines, and more about the fellowship are now online! Check the link in bio or copy/paste AlabamaRivers.org/SE2025 to learn more.

#AlabamaRivers #WaterIsLife #DefendRivers #environment #environmentaldocumentary #EnviroDoc #EcoDoc #AlabamaFilm #FilmAlabama #NowHiring #SummerFellowship #FilmFellowship #Documentary #alabamafilmmaker #JobsintheSouth #Filmmaking

We're excited to return to #Mentone with the NEW #

We're excited to return to #Mentone with the NEW #SouthernExposure Films! Join us Sunday (February 23) at the Moon Lake Library in Mentone for an afternoon of film and conversation. ARA's Jack West will be on hand to talk about our work across Alabama, and answer questions after the films.

Created in six weeks during the summer, the Southern Exposure films celebrate special people and places in Alabama while exploring complex issues and solutions. In this collection, we uncover the hidden and costly dangers of 'forever chemicals' in our rivers and drinking water sources following Riverkeepers as they strive to protect communities—and themselves—from PFAS contamination. We dive underwater to discover a “whole ‘nother living world under there in the seagrass that nobody ever sees”, full of critters and life and we learn what must happen to protect this submerged aquatic vegetation vital to the health of Mobile Bay and the communities and industries that rely on it.. We travel across Alabama rediscovering our native plants, meeting passionate plant people along the way who are making changes big and small in hopes of preserving the last vestiges of once vast ecosystems and Alabama’s unprecedented botanical biodiversity.. Finally, we meet and celebrate three Alabama women who, out of necessity to protect the people and places they love, answered the call to advocate for their water, land and communities.

@moon_lake_library

#mentonealabama #MentoneAL

Cindy sat down with Evolve America's Set in Stone

Cindy sat down with Evolve America's Set in Stone @setitinstone podcast with Khadidah Stone to talk about ARA, water protection in Alabama, and the need for an Alabama Water Plan! It was an incredible conversation where Khadidah and Cindy dove in to discuss "the environmental challenges facing Alabama and critical issues surrounding the state's waterways. Cindy also shares some powerful, fast facts about Alabama’s water ecosystem that you won’t want to miss! Tune in to learn more about the importance of protecting our rivers and the role we all play in preserving Alabama’s natural resources." Listen today from our link in bio! @khatydid_whaaa

ARA was honored to help bring together leaders fro

ARA was honored to help bring together leaders from Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana for The League of Women Voters Gulf Coast Convening this weekend to discuss climate, resilience and affordability.

Cindy moderated an expert panel featuring @mobilebaykeeper, @thejusticecouncil, and Rebuild Bay County. We were also super proud to sponsor Carletta Davis of We Matter Eight Mile Community Association as the keynote speaker—and we loved that we were able to screen the #SouthernExposure Film FORCES OF NATURE before her incredibly powerful message.

At long last! It took us a while to summarize such

At long last! It took us a while to summarize such a successful year, but now we are proud to present our 2024 Impact Report!

Hop in the time machine and take a trip all the way back to 2024 with us. Read about our accomplishments and successes from a year of defending and protecting Alabama's 132,000 miles of rivers and streams with our partners across the state. Read the FULL report from our link in bio, or scroll through the images of some of the pages.

#DefendRivers #WaterIsLife #AlabamaRivers #AlabamaRiversAlliance #ImpactReport #2024InReview #ALPolitics

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