Different organazations, such as the NRDC have made it their missions to end river pollution in the dc metroploitan area. NRDC: Cleaning Up the Anacostia River.
Although the Anacostia River used to be a beautiful river that surrounded DC, it is now a glorified Trash Can.
This is also true of the Potomac River, although these two rivers are supposed to be clean, this is not the case
By coming to this website you have already taken the first step to ending river pollution
In order to keep our rivers and DC in general clean we need to:
To learn more about River Pollution and how to stop it go to: Pollution down, fish recovering in Potomac!