Pat and Tom Lynch moved to their home on Lake Martin seven years ago, drawn by its beauty and high water quality. They quickly gravitated to Lake Watch of Lake Martin, the volunteer monitor group that has been watching over the lake for the past two decades. They got...
S.O.S. celebrates 15 years of Saugahatchee Stewardship
by Barbara and Ron Estridge Save Our Saugahatchee (S.O.S.) celebrated the 15th anniversary of its founding at its April 19, 2012 bi-monthly meeting. S.O.S was incorporated as a non-profit in April 1997 with the mission of improving the quality of Saugahatchee Creek...
Are you smarter (and more environmentally conscious) than a 5th grader?
And, can YOU make a difference in protecting and preserving the world, or at least a piece of it? I recently got a lesson in what individuals can do to make our world a better place. There is an ongoing effort to protect Alabama’s abundant water resources that has...
Winston County Smith Lake Advocacy Group Receives Rise to the Future Award
Congratulations to the Winston County Smith Lake Advocacy Group for receiving the Rise to the Future, National Hydrology, and Soil Science Award from the U.S. Forestry Service. WCSLAI was “recognized for their partnership with the National Forests in Alabama to...
Alabama Water Watch and Alabama Gives Day
Many of you participated in the first annual Alabama Gives Day on February 2, 2012, by donating to Alabama Water Watch and/or by encouraging others to do so (go to www.alabamagivesday.org to learn more). Thanks to you over $1300 were raised for the AWW Association who...
AWW Citizen Trainers – Essential to AWW!
When Alabama Water Watch was just getting started back in 1992, it operated quite differently than it does today. Bill Deutsch, AWW Director, has been in the picture since the beginning and remembers that first year of Water Watch as exciting but exhausting. People...