Creeks, rivers, and watersheds
A healthy Bay Area depends on protecting the watersheds that feed into the Bay and form our environmental lifeline.

What is a watershed?
Freshwater streams and rivers are the lifeblood of our natural world.

Water and watersheds in Bay history
Area once held wealth of wildlife and water.

Salmon streams under federal attack
A "re-designation" of critical salmonid habitat would cut more than 80% of the original critical-habitat designations for West Coast salmon and steelhead trout.

A river without water
The San Joaquin Valley - shouldn't a river run through it?

Restore a national treasure: Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy Valley
The original battle to save Hetch Hetchy Valley was an epiphany for the American public and a call to action for the Sierra Club.

San Francisco plans to take more water out of the Tuolumne River
New pipelines and reservoirs could result in 50% more water being withdrawn from the Tuolumne River.

Calaveras Reservoir expansion would flood some of East Bay's wildest lands
Massive expansion would affect the Sunol Wilderness

When it rains, it pollutes
During storms, most local wastewater agencies dump raw sewage into the Bay; EBMUD's storm-water permit being reviewed now.

EPA poised to allow more raw sewage
New policy would mean more bacteria, viruses and parasites in our drinking and recreational drinking water supplies

East Bay creek and watershed projects - some highlights
The growth in activity around creek and watershed protection rests on grassroots organizations and volunteers - people like you.

Berkeley Creeks Ordinance headed for an update
Berkeley's once-innovative Creeks Ordinance is being updated.

East Bay creek and watershed organizations and agencies
Aist of regional and local grassroots organizations.

Threats to Marin watersheds
The Marin Group has been working to protect many of the county's watersheds.

Thinking like a watershed - a new paradigm in home landscaping
Homeowners' properties are potential jewels in an interconnected web of earth-based living systems.

A wetland by any other name - would lack protection
Court creates little loophole; Bush administration drives bulldozer through it.