Love Our Waterways

Building on the success of Love the Boot Week, we are launching Love Our Waterways.  Keep Louisiana Beautiful needs your help to clean up our state's rivers, lakes, bayous, and coastal shoreline.  Our 14,400-mile waterway system is Louisiana's lifeblood, essential to the vitality of our environment, economy, health, and culture.  We all need to pitch in to clean up marine litter and Love Our Waterways.

The Problem

80% of litter and debris in water begins on land. It makes its way into ditches and streams; it’s carried into our bayous, rivers, and lakes, and eventually into the Gulf of Mexico. With Louisiana being positioned at the mouth of the Mississippi River, we are susceptible to not only the litter generated in our state, but all of the 31 U.S. states that are part of the Mississippi River Watershed — the fourth largest watershed in the world.