Partner Highlight: Winyah Rivers Alliance

“Your rivers improve your quality of life and provide many benefits, from drinking water and recreation, to supporting a growing economy.”
-Winyah Rivers Alliance

This group is a huge part of protecting the waters in the Carolinas. Representing a drainage area of 11,700 square miles, they are the 3rd largest watershed on the eastern seaboad. The Winyah Rivers Alliance works to protect, preserve, monitor and revitalize the health of the lands and waters of the greater Winyah Bay watershed. This includes the Waccamaw, Lumber, Little Pee Dee, Lower Pee Dee, Lynches, Black and Sampit Rivers. But, what are they actually doing to protect these waters?

For starters, Winyah Rivers embraces as one of its core values the education and engagement of their own community in efforts to protect these rivers and clean water. They host a variety of education and engagement programs designed to promote community stewardship.

Secondly, As Riverkeepers and licensees of Waterkeeper Alliance, they hold polluters accountable, protecting clean water and healthy habitats throughout the greater Winyah Bay watershed. The Waccamaw Riverkeeper partners with Coastal Carolina University’s Waccamaw Watershed Academy and local municipalities and other partners, including community volunteers, to monitor water quality in the Waccamaw River watershed from Lake Waccamaw in North Carolina to the outlet of the Waccamaw River into Winyah Bay in South Carolina. In addition to water quality monitoring, they advocate for sound policies and practices to protect clean water for the families and the future in all of the greater Winyah Bay watersheds.

The list goes on. With the North Carolina Waterkeepers and WATERKEEPER® Alliance, they implement the North Carolina CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) Campaign, calling attention to the destructive practices of industrialized meat production, ensuring compliance with the Clean Water Act and supporting the family farms these practices endanger.

This is just a snipit of all the effort and work that this group is putting into protecting our waters. We proudly partner and support the work they are doing, and if you would like to be apart of it or learn more check them out here, or choose “Winya Rivers Alliance” and support them today and everyday as you…

Wear for YOUR waters.