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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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We can't wait to see you in Troy next Thursday! Jo

We can't wait to see you in Troy next Thursday! Join ARA, Choctawhatchee Riverkeeper, Troy University's Biological and Environmental Sciences, and Choctawhatchee, Pea and Yellow Rivers Watershed Management Authority (CPYRWMA) for the FREE screening of the Southern Exposure Films. We'll have pizza and drinks and a tour of the Troy Arboretum, with a Q & A and discussion after the films!

Created in six weeks during the summer, the #SouthernExposure films celebrate special people and places in Alabama while exploring complex issues and solutions.

The rain won’t keep us from strategizing, organi

The rain won’t keep us from strategizing, organizing, messaging and planning for the months ahead at our board retreat this weekend! More time indoors means more time collaborating to #DefendRivers!

We can't wait to see you tomorrow (Wednesday) even

We can't wait to see you tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, Huntsville! ARA and Huntsville Environmental Coalition are bringing the NEW Southern Exposure Films to @campus805 in Huntsville! Join us for an evening of delicious food and drinks, inspiring films, and awesome panel discussion after with Native Habitat Project's Kyle Lybarger and some of the Southern Exposure filmmakers. You don't want to miss this event - get there early to grab some snacks before the films begin!

On this Earth Day, we celebrate the beauty and won

On this Earth Day, we celebrate the beauty and wonder of Alabama's 132,000 miles of rivers and streams and our nationally heralded biodiversity, while we also fight to keep at bay the anxiety of where things stand with environmental protection and preservation in today's world. Communities are fighting for clean water and adequate sanitation all across the state, many Alabamians are facing health problems from pollution both current and legacy pollution. The aftermath of ever present extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change are looming all around us and all the while the very nonprofits, universities and government agencies that work hard each day to understand, protect and advocate for a safe, clean and healthy planet are under attack. We long for the old days of bipartisan support for environmental protection, but today we stand up, we speak out, and we stand strong in our efforts to #DefendRivers for people and nature!

#EarthDay #AlabamaRivers

The people of Lowndes County and many other rural,

The people of Lowndes County and many other rural, low-income and communities of color have been discriminated against for decades when it comes to having equal access to proper sanitation. This settlement was righting a decades-long wrong and now the administration is putting that wrong back on to the people of Lowndes County. If you are an American anywhere in this country located in an area where you do not have access to a centralized sewer system, you are responsible for paying the full cost of treating your wastewater properly. Couple that with areas like Lowndes County in the Alabama Black Belt where the soils make traditional septic solutions nearly impossible, and you have a situation where families are living with raw sewage all around their homes, neighborhoods and waterways. With the federal government forgoing its responsibilities, we need the state of Alabama to step up to the plate and continue to invest in wastewater infrastructure, especially in communities that have not gotten the investment that everyone else has gotten over the past several decades.

See the full story from @insideclimatenews at our link in bio or at insideclimatenews.org

#DefendRivers #WaterIsLife #Wastewater #ALPolitics #AlabamaRivers #AlabamaWater #LowndesCounty

We can't wait to see you tomorrow evening, #Montev

We can't wait to see you tomorrow evening, #Montevallo!

Join ARA, @cahabariverkeeper and @montevalloenvironmental for the FREE public screening of the Southern Exposure 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.

Tuesday, April 15
Doors open at 6 with Mix & Mingling
Films start at 6:30 pm
Q&A + Discussion After with Alabama Rivers Alliance and Cahaba Riverkeeper

Wowee! It has taken us a minute to catch our breat

Wowee! It has taken us a minute to catch our breath from the past few weeks of defending rivers with scores of partners all across the state!

More than 175 river defenders representing 66 organizations and community water protectors from across the state and region gathered together the last weekend in March for the 27th annual Alabama Water Rally in collaboration and celebration and with an unsurpassed dedicated passion! It was without a doubt our biggest and best yet, full of Alabamians spanning all generations learning from experts and leaders, sharing with other communities facing similar threats to their waterways, building the movement needed to protect our 132,000 miles of rivers and streams, and deepening the connections that keep this movement flowing! We already can't wait for next year - in Montgomery! Stay tuned for a save the date coming soon.

Headed back from Water Rally, ARA stopped in #Mont

Headed back from Water Rally, ARA stopped in #Montgomery to continue the momentum protecting ALL of Alabama's rivers! First, Cindy and ARA's new River Region Community Engagement Fellow, Tiffani Powell, along with Kathleen Kirkpatrick of @friendsofthealabamariver met with the Montgomery County Commission as they declared the second Tuesday in April as Rivers of Alabama Day, joining the City of Montgomery who passed the same resolution in 2024. County Commissioner Isaiah Sankey had also been at Water Rally the weekend before, and he enthusiastically announced the the Commission that we will be bringing Water Rally back to Montgomery in 2026.

Our Policy Director, Charles Miller, was also in Montgomery this week, meeting with our legislators and testifying on HB 473. He underscored the need to balance the priorities of recreation and drinking water protections on reservoirs throughout the state of Alabama, and encouraged legislators to find a compromise that allows common-sense protection of our drinking water sources. We have a new bill dropping soon that Charles has been working on too. Stay tuned for news about that coming soon!

Read more about Rivers of Alabama Day, and the proclamations, from the link in bio.

#DefendRivers #AlabamaRivers #WaterIsLife #MontgomeryAL #RiversOfAlabamaDay #RAD #montgomerycounty #getoutsidealabama #ALPolitics

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