PURE FARMS, PURE WATERS

The Pure Farms, Pure Waters campaign combines hard-nosed litigation with education and outreach on sustainable agriculture. We are working with farmers, environmentalists and political leaders to support real alternatives to factory-raised food.

Watch Waterkeeper Alliance President Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speak at the 2009 Pure Farms, Pure Waters National CAFO Summit.

By cramming thousands of animals into warehouse style buildings, industrial livestock facilities produce mountains of waste that end up in our nation's waterways. In many rural communities livestock produce more waste than humans, but while human waste is treated and before being released into the environment, manure is often dumped untreated onto fields- allowing it to wash into local creeks, streams, and rivers causing algae blooms, fish kills, and polluting our drinking water.

Waterkeeper Alliance helps protect rural watersheds by working to prevent the spread of factory-style agriculture and promoting the security of family-owned, sustainable farms.