Tips to save water and have a green lawn
Lawn sprinkling often wastes huge amounts of water. Learn what you can do to conserve water and have green grass.
Lawn sprinkling often wastes huge amounts of water. Learn what you can do to conserve water and have green grass.
A lot of people think groundwater aquifers are big underground lakes and that surface lakes and rivers get all their water from rain and snowmelt flowing across the land. In … Read more
The Gray Freshwater Center, the Freshwater Society’s home in Excelsior, is one of two top winners in an energy-conservation competition that included buildings across the Twin Cities. In the competition … Read more
On a Saturday morning last October, some 27,000 Girl Scouts, parents and adult volunteers worked to clean up and protect lakes, rivers and streams in Minnesota and Northwestern Wisconsin. For … Read more
It will be a year ago next month that representatives from eight citizen-led groups got together to discuss the potential for collective action. Gleason Lake, Mooney Lake, Lake Minnetonka, Christmas … Read more
Have you thought about volunteering for Freshwater, but didn’t have a lot of time? Well, do we have an opportunity for you! We are planning our third Ice OUT/Loon IN … Read more
About 70 people – representatives of lake and creek groups, citizens, business owners, and water resource professionals — packed into a conference room Nov. 7, 2012, at the Eisenhower Community … Read more
Check out our December Facets of Freshwater newsletter. Download a complete PDF or follow these links to: a column by Gene Merriam advocating conservation in the Farm Bill, a preview of a Dec. 13, 2012, forum on … Read more
Gene Merriam Recently, I sent a letter – on behalf of the Freshwater Society – to Minnesota’s members of Congress. I urged them to protect water by voting to include … Read more
Sandra Postel, the author of three books on freshwater and the threats facing water resources around the world, will deliver a free, public lecture in St. Paul on Feb. 12. … Read more