2017 Alabama Water Watch Awards Several individuals and groups were recognized during the AWW 25th Anniversary Celebration. Mullen Award Recipient: Mark Butler The “Monitor of the Year” award for the monitor who has submitted the most data records in the past...
AWW 25th Anniversary Celebration Highlights
Who could have imagined back in the early days of AWW how far-reaching the program's impacts would be 25 years later. Read about some of AWW’s impressive achievements in Eric’s recent AWWareness Article: AWW Celebrates 25 Years of Watching the Water. Over the weekend...
Canoeing and Celebrating on the Cahaba
On May 19th, to kick off a fun-filled weekend of celebrating 25 years of “Loving Our Downstream Neighbor”, several AWW monitors and staff floated a short stretch of the Cahaba River on the Living River Retreat property. Along the way we found snakes, turtles, and...
AWW celebrates 25 years of watching the water
Back in 1992, Bill Deutsch was fresh out of graduate school at AU, and ready to go out and change the world – for the better, of course. Little did he know that 25 years later, AWW would have trained 7,400 citizen monitors who have monitored 2,400 sites on the...
Flo Peters, AWW trainer and monitor extraordinaire!
Flo Peters and her husband Bill have monitored lots of water and influenced many, many others to do the same! Both have been recognized over the past several years for their outstanding efforts in watershed stewardship and environmental education. Bill, along...