San Francisco Baykeeper

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San Francisco Baykeeper is a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization that uses science and the law to protect, preserve, and enhance the health of the ecosystems and communities that depend upon the San Francisco Bay, the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary, and its watershed. SF Baykeeper is the only organization, governmental or non-profit, that regularly patrols the Bay by boat and drone to document sources of pollution.

The San Francisco Bay watershed—in addition to its recreational value and the biological diversity it supports—provides drinking water for more than 23 million people, and is vital to

marine mammals, migrating birds, and California's few remaining endangered salmon
runs.

Baykeeper was founded in 1989 by research scientist Dr. Michael Herz, on the principle that California's

waterways
are common property, owned by all who use and enjoy them. Baykeeper works to rehabilitate natural environments and promote new strategies and policies to protect the water quality of the Bay-Delta Estuary.

Baykeeper currently operates local chapters for the San Francisco Bay and the

Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. It was the fourth "waterkeeper" organization in the nation and the first on the West Coast of the United States
.

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