Freshwater Society Master Water Stewards Dave Stack and Katharine Winston installed a raingarden at Katharine’s neighbor’s home at 4615 Meadow Road, Edina, MN, 55424 for their capstone project on October 14th. Every … Read more
This year’s Metro Summit for Lake and river groups was another great success with a capacity crowd learning and networking at the Eisenhower Community Center in Hopkins. The key note … Read more
We asked Steve Woods, Freshwater’s new executive director, to talk a little about his background, his priorities and the connections to water in his life. Q: Our members and supporters … Read more
Are Minnesotans over-using groundwater in ways that could leave us short of water – for human uses and for the environment – in the future? The short answer to that … Read more
The world’s population is destined to grow to 9 billion people by mid-century, and that means we have to somehow double global food production. Right? Not necessarily, according to Jonathan … Read more
Do you have questions you want to ask, or comments you want to make, about the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s draft strategy for reducing nitrogen and phosphorus in the Mississippi … Read more
The Associated Press today released a major investigation on the environmental impact of America’s boom in corn-based ethanol. The report details increased pollution of streams from nitrogen fertilizers and increased … Read more
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Iowa officials this week unveiled a new website – www.cleanwateriowa.org –intended to help Iowans clean up their rivers and lakes. A Des Moines Register article quoted Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad … Read more
Continuing research on the amount of nitrate washing down the Mississippi River south of the Minnesota border shows a very significant increase in the yearly loads of the pollutant from … Read more
