Mexico
Tijuana Waterkeeper
Tijuana River cuenca and the Pacific coast
A river that crosses two countries; watching over a shared cuenca all the way to the Pacific.
Water guardianes of Latin America
The water you drink, the water that grows your food, the water you'll leave your children — someone is looking after it.
Across eight territories of Latin America, from northern Mexico to Patagonia, there are people who measure water quality, restore the banks, teach children to care for their river, organize cleanups and legally defend the cuencas against those who harm them. They are the water guardianes.
Cauce is the campaign that sustains them. Your contribution makes their work possible. Without it, it stops.
Members of Waterkeeper Alliance, the largest network of water guardianes in the world.
Join the cauce
Contribute and get La Gota Carlota.
Your contribution sustains the guardianes' work in the river — and every donation, from USD 15, takes home the complete La Gota Carlota: all 8 volumes in PDF.
Our fundraising goal
Every donation includes the complete book: all 8 volumes of La Gota Carlota in PDF, a USD 15 value.
As soon as your donation is complete you get the download link to your book (all 8 volumes in PDF) on screen and by email. Secure payment with Donorbox.
Who has supported our project
- NP
Nubia Perdomo
“Me sumo al cauce con mucha alegría. ¡Juntos podemos lograr un gran cambio!”
- JC
Juan Chambers
“Feliz de aportar a esta causa. ¡Sigamos sumándonos al cauce!”
- JC
Judy Chambers
“Con mucho cariño apoyo esta iniciativa. ¡Gracias por hacerla posible!”
- CC
Clara Chambers
“Me encanta ser parte de este cauce. ¡Adelante con la causa!”
- FS
Frank Sauz
“Proteger el agua es responsabilidad de todos. Feliz de poner mi granito de arena en este cauce.”
- CV
Carlos Virues
“Orgulloso de sumarme a esta causa. El agua nos une y vale la pena cuidarla.”
- FC
Fernando Chambers
“Cada aporte cuenta. Juntos, gota a gota, podemos cuidar nuestros ríos.”
- DL
Dayanna Lugo
“Me sumo con todo el corazón para que el agua siga viva. ¡Gracias por esta iniciativa!”
What do you get when you donate?
The story of La Gota Carlota
Carlota is born high up, in the ice of a glacier, and flows drop by drop toward the south. At every stop she finds a source of water, a child who can hear her —because only children understand the voice of water— and the work of a guardián who protects it.
And so, source by source, Carlota weaves the same thread that unites the whole region and discovers that the world's water is saved by the people who care for it.
Every donation includes the complete book: all 8 volumes of La Gota Carlota in PDF (USD 15 value).
Carlota's journey
From the glacier to Patagonia.
Carlota is born in the ice of the north and flows, drop by drop, toward the south. At every stop she finds a source of water and the guardián who protects it. Follow her.
Mexico
Los Cabos Coastkeeper
Bay and cuenca of Cabo San Lucas
Beaches where sea turtles nest and the bay of Cabo San Lucas.
Colombia
Bocas de Ceniza Waterkeeper
Mouth of the Río Magdalena at the Caribbean
Where the Magdalena gives itself to the Caribbean: watching over what reaches the ocean.
Colombia
Río Meta Waterkeeper
Río Meta
A water artery that connects entire towns: sampling, cleanups and mingas alongside the communities.
Colombia
Río Pauto Waterkeeper
Río Pauto
Constant monitoring and new generations caring for a river of the plains.
Ecuador
Guayllabamba Waterkeeper
Río Guayllabamba
Quito's river, which the city can learn to see and care for again.
Peru
Río Mapacho Waterkeeper
Río Mapacho
An Andean river cared for with citizen science and the schools of the cuenca.
Chile
Futaleufú Riverkeeper
Río Futaleufú
The turquoise river that stopped a dam; today it trains guardianas through «Chicas al Agua».
What you're supporting
Your support becomes real work.
Water monitoring
Measuring water quality and making the data public.
Environmental education
Teaching children and communities to read and care for their river.
Legal advocacy
Defending rivers and coasts against those who harm them.
Riverbank reforestation
Bringing shade and life back to the banks.
Mingas and cleanups
Pulling out of the water what should never have reached it.
Transparency
Every contribution directly strengthens the work of the guardianes. You're not funding an office: you're funding the people in the river.
The manifesto
In Latin America, follow the water and you'll find the people.
Follow a river and you reach a community. Follow the coast and you reach a town. Follow a cuenca and you find families who drink, cook, play and work thanks to that same water.
Water is the thread that stitches this region together.
And that thread is fraying.
Join the cauce
You don't donate. You become a guardián del agua.
Choose how to join. Every contribution goes straight to the guardianes.
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September 15–19, 2026 · JW Marriott Quito · Guayllabamba cuenca
The global conference that strengthens the guardianes
From September 15 to 19, 2026, Waterkeeper Alliance holds its Global Conference in Quito — and the local guardián is one of the eight this campaign sustains. It's the most important annual gathering of the largest water movement in the world: a week where organizations from more than 300 territories across six continents exchange tools, science and strategy to protect their water sources. This year's theme is water quality and pollution control — the problem their own communities identified as the most urgent. The sessions combine field training, contaminant monitoring, citizen science and legal advocacy. It's not a conference of speeches: it's where the world's water guardianes learn together to be more effective in their rivers, coasts and cuencas.