As part of the Year of Water, we will feature bi-monthly themes focused on water issues. The key features of the initiative are: Speaker Series We are sponsoring an engaging … Read more
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Organizations | Events | Water Quality Data There are organizations across the state that work to protect and restore water resources. Search below for organizations in the Twin Cities … Read more
January & February Theme Why Designate a Year of Water?The Freshwater Society and partners want to raise the awareness among citizens about our water resources and how we can … Read more
The Freshwater Society and partners want to raise the awareness among citizens about our water resources and how we can protect them in our everyday lives. We are providing education … Read more
Welcome to 2010 – The Year of Water a year-long celebration of our lakes, rivers, streams and aquifers. The themes for the year are: January & February Theme What is … Read more
World Savvy, a nonprofit educational organization, is offering a teachers’ workshop on the global water crisis in connection with this year’s World Affairs Challenge on water, a competition for middle- … Read more
Registration for the 9th Annual Road Salt Symposium is now open.
Keeping Our Winter Roads Safe While Protecting Our Waters
Date: Feb. 3, 2010
Time: 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
Crowne Plaza Minneapolis North
Brooklyn Center, MN
To register, click here.
Old and unused drugs – both prescription and non-prescription – are a major source of water pollution. Many drugs contain endocrine-disrupting compounds that can interfere with the hormonal systems that … Read more
Is Minnesota making progress toward cleaning up the 40 percent of its rivers and lakes that suffer from some type of pollution that makes then unfit for swimming or fishing or inhospitable to the aquatic species that live in them?
Are the Legislature and state agencies on the right track toward spending the estimated $3.25 billion that a sales tax increase last year will yield over 25 years for protecting and restoring water?
About 100 people gathered Tuesday, Oct. 20, at a forum to ask, and try to answer, those questions.
The forum was sponsored by the Minnesota Environmental Initiative and hosted by the Freshwater Society at the Gray Freshwater Center in Excelsior. To view participants’ presentations, click here.
