Baykeeper Defends the Bay from Pollution
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 two decades, Baykeeper has been the premiere watchdog of the water quality of the vast San Francisco Bay-Delta watershed.
Baykeeper is celebrating twenty years of protecting the Bay! Read more about our 20th anniversary campaign.
Using the many tools at our disposal – advocacy, water quality monitoring and science, on-the-water patrols, public education and, when necessary, legal action – Baykeeper compels polluters to stop contaminating our waterways and holds government agencies accountable for safeguarding and restoring the waters that belong to all of us.
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.
Baykeeper addresses the Bay's most pressing pollution problems.
- Reducing sewage spills and overflows into the Bay and ocean
- Preventing pollution runoff from city streets
- Stopping the flow of industrial chemicals to the Bay
Reducing vessel pollution, from oil spills to invasive species to the Ghost Fleet of Suisun Bay, as well as preventing abandoned boats- Protecting fish and marine life from power plants and water diversions in the Delta
- Controlling toxic pollution to the Bay
- Protecting the Delta from pollution caused by industrial agriculture
You can boost Baykeeper's efforts by making a contribution today. Thank you for your support!