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There’s an App for That!

There’s an App for That!

The Official Alabama Water Watch App is here! Our app is FREE and available for download on Google Play and the Apple Store. The AWW App was made possible through the Auburn University Water Resources Center, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, and the Alabama...

New Online Data Entry!

New Online Data Entry!

On AWW data and water monitoring data entry … The AWW database is closing in on 90,000 water monitoring data records and with all of that data comes a need for efficient data management! Since 2002, the majority of water data has been submitted electronically by...

A Message From the Director

A Message From the Director

Dear AWW Family, It is with a heavy heart that I write to you, but a heart filled with gratitude and purpose. As of October 1, I retired from Auburn University after 29 years of service. After hobbling around for a couple of months this past spring, I was diagnosed...

Fish Kills and Contaminated Fish Consumption

Below are a couple of updates relative to 1) reporting fish kills, and 2) advising on consumption of contaminated fish. Reporting Fish Kills: Please help the good folks in the Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division of DCNR (Department of Conservation and Natural...

Updates on bacteria monitoring from ADEM and AWW

Updates on bacteria monitoring from ADEM and AWW

Water Watchers, I hope that all are having an enjoyable summer, and have time to recreate on and in our world-class waters here in Alabama. Below are a couple of updates relative to bacterial contamination of our surface waters, and our AWW bacteriological data entry...

2017 AWW Awards

2017 AWW Awards

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

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

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

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...

AWW Infographic welcomes all to Alabama

AWW Infographic welcomes all to Alabama

Last summer, through the creative work of Information Technology Specialist, Jennie Powers (College of Business/College of Agriculture), Alabama Water Watch (AWW) developed an infographic poster depicting Alabama’s world-class aquatic biodiversity. Did you know that...

AWW monitor watches Mobile’s water

AWW monitor watches Mobile’s water

by Eric Reutebuch Contributed article by: By: Dr. Mimi Fearn – Co. Chair, 2017 Citizens Action Committee; Chair, DRCR Water Quality Monitoring Coordinator Jason Kudulis – Monitoring and Science Coordinator, Mobile Bay National Estuary Program Water watching is seeing...

JRM celebrates their 3 year anniversary!

JRM celebrates their 3 year anniversary!

by Whitney Henson The Jacksonville River Monitors met last Saturday to test their local streams and celebrate three years of dedicated students working to make a positive impact on their community. Since January, 2014, The Jacksonville River Monitors have met every...

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