Baykeeper Defends Your Waters
On Land And On Water
Founded in 1989, Baykeeper works to reverse the environmental degradation of the past and promote new strategies and policies to protect the water quality of the San Francisco Bay. For nearly two decades, Baykeeper has been the premiere watchdog of the water quality of the vast San Francisco Bay-Delta watershed.
Using the many tools at our disposal – advocacy, water quality monitoring and science, on-the-water patrols, public education and, when necessary, legal action – we compel polluters to stop contaminating our waterways and hold government agencies accountable for safeguarding and restoring the waters that belong to all of us. Now, Baykeeper is initiating a broad effort to reinvest our resources in the nine counties immediately surrounding the Bay, and as a result we have dramatically increased our capacity to anticipate and respond to pollution impacting the Bay.
The mission of Baykeeper is to protect and enhance the water quality of the San Francisco Bay for the benefit of its ecosystems and human communities. Baykeeper fills a unique water quality niche in the Bay Area by acting as the watchdog for the Bay and enforcing clean water laws in order to protect and restore the watershed.
- Reduce and eliminate the major sources of toxic pollution to the Bay
- Curtail polluted stormwater runoff into the Bay
- Reduce sewage spills and overflows into the Bay and ocean
- Strengthen regulation of toxic pollution
- Improve oil spill prevention and response policies and control vessel pollution in the Bay
- End fish kills by Bay Area power plants
You can boost Baykeeper's efforts by making a contribution today. Thank you for your support!