About 200 people – environmentalists and farmers – took part in an all-day conference on agriculture and water quality sponsored by the Izaak Walton League in partnership with the Freshwater Society.
The March 27 conference was aimed at trying to reach some common understanding of the contentious issue of pollution caused by agricultural production, especially farm drainage.
Ron Schara Outdoors writer and broacaster Ron Schara hosts the latest Water Minute video produced by the Freshwater Society and KARE-11 TV for 2010 – The Year of Water. Schara … Read more
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Hedrick Smith, the producer of the PBS Frontline documentary “Poisoned Waters,” will deliver a lecture on water pollution tonight, April 27, in St. Paul.
The lecture– titled Poisoned Waters: The Pollution Peril — is sponsored by the Freshwater Society and the University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences.
The lecture will be at 7 p.m. in the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul Student Center theater.
More than three decades after the Clean Water Act was supposed to make America’s waters clean enough for swimming and fishing again, major waterways across the country are still in perilous condition. Runoff from industry, agriculture and massive suburbandevelopment is flowing into waters from Chesapeake Bay to the Mississippi River to Puget Sound.
State health officials are warning that contaminated private water wells pose a major public concern during the flooding now threatening various parts of Minnesota. Although simply coming in contact with … Read more
Gary Doer, U.S. Ambassador to Canada, will speak on “Transboundary Water Policy” at 4 p.m., Thursday, March 25, in the University of Minnesota Humphrey Center’s Cowles Auditorium. Doer will speak about … Read more
The Westonka Horticulture Society is sponsoring a fifth annual Westonka Horticulture Day from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 27. The event will be held at Mound Westonka … Read more
6th Annual Water is Life Art Contest Great Scholarship Opportunity! ~deadlines are approaching~ Intent to Participate was due March 15th Artwork, videos, statements and Entry Forms are due March 25th Click … Read more
World Savvy, a global educational non-profit organization working to educate and engage youth in community and world affairs, is seeking volunteers to help conduct a water-themed student competition March 6 … Read more
9th Annual Road Salt Symposium February 3, 2010 To view the following presentation, please click on the title: Twin Cities Metro Area Chloride Project Brooke Asleson, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency … Read more
9th Annual Road Salt Symposium February 3, 2010
