The quality of the water in San Francisco Bay is showing improvement after decades of aggressive ongoing environmental initiatives.
SF Baykeeper is one of several bay water watchdogs reporting an improvement.
“In the 1960’s it was really bad before clean water acts,” said Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of SF Baykeeper, a nonprofit organization that monitors the quality of the bay water.
She says the last two decades of enforcement of state and federal pollution laws have paid off.
“We don’t have as many spills, not as many people tossing trash in the bay,” said Choksi-Chugh.
We also spoke with two organizations that monitor marine life in the bay.
The Golden Gate Cetacean Research Agency and the Marine Mammal Center both said based on an increase in numbers of certain types of marine life, and their current behavior, they believe the quality oif the water has improved in the bay.
Choksi-Chugh organizes beach clean-ups and the group takes a boat out weekly enforcing pollution laws.
If you want to get involved in any bay clean-up activity, they got a lot going on.
“We are always looking for members,” Choksi-Chugh said.
To learn more, visit baykeeper.org.
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