The Baltimore Urban Waters Partnership (BUWP) serves to improve coordination among federal, state,and local agencies, and to collaborate with community-led efforts to improve the greater Baltimore/Patapsco watersheds and promote economic, environmental and social benefits of healthy waterways that can be accessed by all.
The Baltimore Urban Waters Partnership works to develop projects devoted to:
protecting and restoring urban waters
promoting community revitalization and strengthening social fabric by removing urban blight
establishing open spaces
creating economic development to catalyze opportunities for disadvantaged neighborhoods
capitalizing on the social and economic benefits derived from improved urban waters and adjacent lands