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Students from Geraldine, North Sand Mountain and Sardis high schools recently received awards for their Earth Team projects in water monitoring. Chip Blanton, FFA instructor at Fort Payne High School, trained area students in water quality monitoring techniques...

AWW personnel traveled to Radney Elementary School in Alexander City in early January to participate in an innovative environmental ed program established between the AWW citizen water monitor group, Lake Watch of Lake Martin, and the school. It has been a big hit...

On Saturday, December 10th, 2011 a group of enthusiastic citizens braved the chilly but beautiful Saugahatchee Creek to learn how benthic macroinvertebrates or “aquatic bugs” can tell us a great deal about water quality. The type of water monitoring...

Area volunteer monitoring groups began collaborative watershed-level water monitoring in the Saugahatchee and Chewacla watersheds in and around Auburn, Alabama back in 2007. Members of Save Our Saugahatchee (SOS) and Friends of Chewacla Creek and the Uphapee Watershed...

A group of dedicated area residents dipped tubes and collection bottles into the Indian Creek Canal in downtown Huntsville to test an array of water chemistry parameters on November 19th 2011 (click here for Huntsville Time blog article). Trainers from Alabama Water...

Over 50 area residents gathered at the Dodge City Restaurant on the east side of Smith Lake on October 29th for the 15th Annual State of the Lake Address. Staff from Alabama Water Watch (AWW) have been invited to the lake by the Smith Lake Environmental Preservation...

Logan Martin Lake Protection Association (LMLPA) gathered in October 2011 for their annual meeting at the Pell City Civic Center on the Cropwell Embayment of Lake Logan Martin. LMLPA volunteer water monitor have been testing sites on the lake and its tributaries since...

Alabama Water Watch and the Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division of Alabama’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) teamed up with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System for the Alabama’s Living Streams module of the new Alabama...

Bluegrass music and grassroots support were combined to raise $825.00 for Alabama Water Watch at an Auburn, AL restaurant recently.  AWW monitors Liz Brennan, Brian Simpson and Donnie Addison, members of the “High Strung Dew Sippers”, along with fellow...

Alabama Water Watch representatives traveled to Dadeville to talk about AWW, what it is, what it does, and what becoming a part of AWW means for the health of Lake Martin and its watershed. Group effort: Mona Scruggs Dominguez from AWW explains community involvement...

Congratulations to Dr. Bill Deutsch! He was selected as the Water Conservationist of the Year by the Board of Directors of the Alabama Wildlife Federation.  He was recognized at the Governor’s Conservation Achievement Awards ceremony on August 5th in Prattville....

Alabama Water Watch held its 18th Annual Meeting and Picnic at Comer Hall on the Auburn University campus in June. The event was a success by several measures. More than 80 people from all over the state attended. Nearly all of the state’s river basins were...