This Week: United by Our Shared Voices; Spring Grant Cycle Open; Determine Learning Sessions; Protect Waterways from Federal Deregulation; Indiana Residents – Urgent Action; Development Threatens Clean Water and Sovereignty of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation; Win! Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules in Favor
Freshwater Future Receives 2026 Grant from Charles Stewart Mott Foundation to Address Freshwater Challenges in the Great Lakes Region
This funding will enable Freshwater Future to continue supporting grassroots and community organizations across the region with small grants, capacity building, technical expertise, collaboration, and policy engagement, helping local groups and leaders protect waterways and drinking water in their own communities.
United by Our Shared Voices
Freshwater Future recognizes all our local heroes who stand up daily in their neighborhoods and for their neighbors to say our voices will not be silenced.
Freshwater Future Weekly: January 23, 2026
This Week: Statement on MLK Jr. Day and Renee Good; Help Us Determine Learning Sessions and Workshops; Speak out to Protect Waterways from Federal Deregulation; Indiana State Senate Considers Dismantling Environmental Regulatory Agency
Statement on MLK Jr Day and Renee Good
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”― Martin Luther King Jr. Freshwater Future’s Statement on Renee Good’s Tragic…
Freshwater Future Weekly: January 16, 2026
This Week: Register today for Mindfulness and Movement; [Blog] Less Commission, More People: What A Global Debate on “Valuing” Water Means for the Great Lakes States; More Ontario Communities Commit to Smarter Road Salt Practices
Less Commission, More People: What A Global Debate on “Valuing” Water Means for the Great Lakes States
By Angelique Willis Should we “value” water by putting a price on it? That question lies at the heart…
Freshwater Future Weekly: January 9, 2026
This Week: Basic Introduction to Cyber Security; Mindfulness and Movement; First Nations Win Lawsuit that Government is Required to Provide Safe Water; New Tool: Lead Service Line Inventory; State Legislative Update: Large Water Withdrawals and Data Centers
Freshwater Future Weekly: January 2, 2026
This Week: Thank You for Your Support; Last Chance to Ask the U.S. EPA to Protect Wetlands and Clean Water; January 13th, Join Us to Enhance your Organization’s Cyber Security; Save the Date for January’s Mindfulness and Movement Session