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At Home with Clean Water

March 31, 2020 | By Jon Scott
As I’m writing this from my home office, my lone coworker, Woodie, has gotten tired of warming my feet and wants to go outside to play. I’ll be right back! OK! A few minutes outside was nice. Good call, Woodie! While I was out, I got an email from SurveyMonkey Contribute, inviting me to take another
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Woodie -- a dog!

Letters and emails from Clean Water Action?

March 30, 2020 | By Jon Scott
Like many nonprofits, many of our most important communications with our members are planned out many weeks in advance – a much longer timeframe than the rapid pace with which the COVID-19 pandemic is spreading. This means, chances are, you have received one or more communications that were written
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Ripples on the surface of the water. Credit: 2xWilfinger / Shutterstock
Dripping spiggot

Groundwater Rules!

March 27, 2020 | By Jennifer Clary
With all that’s happening right now, it can be difficult to pay attention to anything other than the news of the day. I’m focused on groundwater; how we use it – and use too much; how we protect it from pollution – or don’t; and how we can ensure that it’s available when we need it. And even on a
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The COVID-19 Crisis and Our Water: Part 1

March 26, 2020 | By Lynn Thorp
What's with all the bottled water? As people stocked up on food and essential items for their time at home to help slow the spread of the COVID-19, I saw shopping carts full of bottled water. Television shots and videos on social media of shoppers often showed the same thing. It seems that over the
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crumpled plastic water bottle / photo: flickr.com/jesse (CC BY 2.0)
Minnesota’s Great Lakes Day team meeting with Republican U.S. Representative Jim Hagedorn (CD-1)

Minnesotans Meet with Congressional Delegation to Prioritize Great Lakes Protection and Drinking Water

March 24, 2020 | By Steve Schultz
Clean Water Action Minnesota was in DC to talk about and support the GLRI Act of 2019 and advocated for significantly increasing federal funding for clean water and safe drinking water programs. The GLRI Act would provide stability for Great Lakes funding for at least five years, provide secure and stable funding, and will encourage more state and local governments, as well as private businesses, to invest in protection and restoration across the Great Lakes basin.
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