A Minnesota Ghost Story
The town of Beaver in Winona County is a Minnesota ghost town. The Dust Bowl—the climate crisis of the decade—set the stage for the town’s demise. It was abandoned after … Read more
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How We Treat Water
No one wants to talk about it. We’re often relying on decades to century-old technology. And we are just barely getting by. What am I referring to? Water and wastewater … Read more
Minnesota: Land of 10,000 water laws?
Minnesota has a long history of passing laws aimed at addressing how water affects people — and how people affect our valuable waters. That is why we at Freshwater take … Read more
Darby Nelson launches book: For Love of a River: The Minnesota
On October 17 Darby and Geri Nelson celebrated the release of Darby’s newest book, For Love of a River: The Minnesota. Darby is an aquatic ecologist, biology professor emeritus at … Read more
Ripple Effect: Freshwater’s mission in action
As a student at St. John’s University, Rob McManus has designed a project that puts him solidly in the professional research world. Interning with Dr. Carrie Jennings at Freshwater, he … Read more
2019 Confluence of stewards
This year’s class of Stewards celebrated their graduation at Confluence, an annual gathering of certified stewards, partners, and program supporters. Capstone projects were on display as attendees noshed on appetizers, … Read more
Deirdre Coleman receives Excellence Award from MAVA
by Alex Van Loh, program coordinator Back in 2012, with the Master Water Steward (MWS) program merely a grand idea, Freshwater staff gathered a group of 30 water organizations to … Read more
A Big Conun-dung
Heavy rainfall is not the only thing that kept us from city beaches this summer. A spike in the presence of E. coli caused a record-breaking season of closed water … Read more
Freshwater welcomes Fellow from Bhutan
Meet Jambay, faculty of Watershed Hydrology, Statistics, and Forestry at College of Natural Resources, Royal University of Bhutan and visiting researcher at Freshwater. Jambay joins Freshwater for four months as … Read more