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  • noun A person responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of a body of water.

Etymologies

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water +‎ keeper

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Examples

  • Gloria Reuben is an actress nominated for multiple Emmy Awards, is Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Waterkeeper Alliance, the global environmental organization (www. waterkeeper.org).

    Securing Our Clean Energy Future 2010

  • Gloria Reuben is an actress nominated for multiple Emmy Awards, is Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Waterkeeper Alliance, the global environmental organization (www. waterkeeper.org).

    Gloria Reuben: JPMorgan Chase Profits from Destruction in Appalachia 2010

  • Gloria Reuben is an actress nominated for multiple Emmy Awards, is Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Waterkeeper Alliance, the global environmental organization (www. waterkeeper.org).

    Gloria Reuben: Securing Our Clean Energy Future 2010

  • Andrew Lewis of Aquatic Invasives Management, an invasive plant control company that helped remove milfoil from Paradox Bay last summer, suggested the village hire a waterkeeper to "map out the muck in Lake Placid" or survey areas of the lake where milfoil could take hold.

    Adirondack Daily Enterprise 2010

  • National organization which had designated the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound as it's local waterkeeper has removed that right after numerous complains and an internal investigation.

    CapeCodToday Blog Chowder 2009

  • $25,000 to establish a waterkeeper program designed to monitor and protect sections of both the Mississippi and Rock rivers.

    Dallas Business News - Local Dallas News | Dallas Business Journal 2010

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