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48 minutes long | Released 1998
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Synopsis
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. leads the nation’s fastest-growing grassroots environmental organization, the Waterkeeper Alliance. Like an environmental “Neighborhood Watch” program, waterkeepers take polluters to court, respond to citizens’ complaints about water pollution, identify problems that affect rivers, bays, lakes and streams; devise appropriate remedies and act as living witnesses to the condition of local ecosystems. Waterkeepers have helped to clean up and protect hundreds of water bodies around the world from pollution and dirty industries.
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Thought Provoking Questions About The Waterkeepers
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- How does pollution affect an ecosystem and the biodiversity within that ecosystem?
- How does the Waterkeeper Alliance work to protect rivers, bays, lakes and streams? Do you think that their efforts are effective? Why or why not?
- What is a riverkeeper, baykeeper or soundkeeper? What is their role in ecosystem protection?
- What is environmental crime and how does the Clean Water Act fight against it?
- Why do you think grassroots environmental groups like the Waterkeeper Alliance are growing in numbers? Do you think the work that these groups do is important? Effective? Why or why not?
- Why should we care about what happens to our rivers and other bodies of water?
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