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If you had to miss our Jan. 30 lecture on fracking and water quality, you missed a wonderful educational opportunity. But… You can still catch the presentation on video. Jackson’s lecture, … Read more

Paige Winebarger, a retired bank executive and ardent environmentalist, joined the Freshwater Society Board in December 2013. We asked Paige, a former member of both the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board … Read more

Hydraulic fracturing – pumping water and chemicals deep underground to bring oil and natural gas to the surface – is one of the most controversial environmental issues in the U.S. … Read more

On Jan. 30, 2014, Robert Jackson, an environmental scientist from Duke University who has done extensive research on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas and oil, will deliver the 14th lecture … Read more

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

Steve Woods, an assistant director of the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources, has succeeded Gene Merriam as the Freshwater Society’s top leader. Woods was chosen by the Freshwater … Read more