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