What We Do
Here at Waterkeepers Bahamas, our mission is to protect and improve The Bahamas watersheds.
Waterkeepers Bahamas is a non-profit organization comprised of a diverse group of Bahamian and international individuals, as well as community partners that work together to preserve and protect our beautiful Bahaman lands, waters, and ecosystems.
Emery Beach Profiling – Beach profiles provide useful information for coastal monitoring studies and management processes. We at Waterkeepers Bahamas, beach profile to monitor our shorelines over a period of time to see how our beaches are being affected by catastrophic storms that take place during hurricane season each year.
Waterkeepers Cadets Programme – Our Waterkeepers Cadets Programme is for senior high school students that want to continue on their environmental leadership skills about the environment before they leave high school. The students would first have to join our YEA programme and be handpicked to continue on to this programme.
Water Quality Monitoring – Monitoring the water quality of our watersheds; to ensure swimmable, fishable, drinkable water for all. Our samples are collected biweekly, incubated in our lab and the results are posted on swimguide.org website.
We protect nature not for nature’s sake, but for our own sake because it’s the infrastructure of our communities.”
– Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Number of Samples Collected (since 2017)