SRAP's Water Rangers Program works with rural communities to protect their right to clean water and hold industrial livestock operations accountable for pollution. We provide free water testing training and offer instruction on documenting and reporting pollution violations to local, state, tribal nations, and federal regulators.
Industrial livestock operations are among the worst water polluters in the U.S. Because they confine so many animals in one place, these facilities generate vast quantities of waste, which is typically stored onsite before being applied untreated to surrounding land. Unfortunately, mismanagement and overapplication of waste is common, causing ground and surface water pollution. This contaminates wells, causes fish kills, spawns toxic algal blooms, and renders local waterways unsafe.
SRAP's Water Rangers program is designed to help communities protect their right to clean water and to hold industrial livestock operations accountable for pollution. We offer free training to teach participants to collect and analyze water samples, document pollution, and report violations to regulators in order to prompt enforcement action. The program works to build strong networks of community scientists who monitor waterways, reversing a decades-long trend of industrial livestock pollution.
SRAP's Water Rangers Program empowers rural communities to protect their water and hold polluters accountable. By training community scientists, we achieve lasting reductions in water pollution from industrial livestock operations. This leads to cleaner water, better public health, and a stronger, more sustainable environment for future generations.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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