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Alabama Water Watch believes that citizen monitoring can make Alabama's waters safer and has recently drafted a position paper titled 'A Science-Based, Community-Based Approach to Monitoring and Controlling Pathogens in Alabama Waters.' The position paper outlines how...

Logan Martin Lake Protection Association (LMLPA) started water monitoring on the lake in 1996 to fulfill their mission of ‘GUARDING LOGAN MARTIN LAKE WATER QUALITY AND QUANTITY’ (see www.lmlpa.org for more information).  Over the past 16 years, LMLPA has coordinated...

In March 2012, AWW responded to a request for public input relative to ADEM’s 2012 draft 303(d) list of impaired streams. AWW examined volunteer monitor water data collected in recent years, and requested that ADEM consider this wealth of information as it evaluated...

AWW was recently featured in River Network's newsletter, River Voices, with an article titled 'Volunteer Monitoring Data: Data to Action Southern Style'. Click here for article

Auburn University is fortunate to have a dedicated group of student environmentalists on campus who make up the Environmental Awareness Organization (EAO). EAO members have regular meetings which usually involve a special activity or speaker meant to enrich their...

Lexie Larkin is a 15-year old ninth grader at Sumter Academy in York, Alabama. She loves sports, especially volleyball, basketball and softball. Unfortunately, she suffered two knee injuries with two accompanying knee surgeries that influenced her to pursue other...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Many Alabama Water Watch monitors, Association members, and staff participated in the 14th Annual Alabama Water Rally which is hosted each year by the Alabama Rivers Alliance.  This year’s Rally took place at Camp Beckwith on beautiful Weeks Bay on March 16th-18th. It...

Radney Elementary School’s gifted student program was honored on Friday, March 1, 2012 when the Best Environmental Education Program (BEEP) Award was presented to Radney teacher, Laurie Barrett. The award was presented to Mrs. Barrett by Shirley Farrell, President of...