Shahin
Sheila
Alan
Earthlisland

The Alliance is a coalition of environmental and community organizations that first joined forces in 1997 to address the impacts of accelerated development along San Francisco’s shoreline. The founding members recognized that unless addressed, the speed and size of increasing development would over-tax the city’s combined sewage and stormwater management infrastructure, resulting in the degradation of water quality in San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean and exacerbation of long-standing environmental justice impacts of the disproportionate burden of wastewater treatment facilities in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood. The Alliance’s mission is promote the protection and sustainability of San Francisco's water resources by advocating for:

• Reduction of sewage overflows and polluted stormwater runoff;
• Implementation of sound wastewater treatment alternatives;
• Increased water recycling and conservation;
• Diversion of stormwater flows for beneficial uses;
• Cleanup of contaminated soil, groundwater, water bodies and waterways;
• Prevention of soil and water pollution;
• Environmental justice;
• Preservation and restoration of aquatic and wetland wildlife habitat and other environmental restoration.

Today, the Alliance has grown to 23 organizations with members throughout the City of San Francisco and has become a project of Earth Island Institute.