Freshwater Future Weekly: September 11, 2026
This Week: Win! Nipigon Bay Delisted as Area of Concern; Project Grant Spotlight: Williams County Alliance; Funding Available - New Q&A Recording Available; Upcoming Online Events
This Week: Win! Nipigon Bay Delisted as Area of Concern; Project Grant Spotlight: Williams County Alliance; Funding Available - New Q&A Recording Available; Upcoming Online Events
This Week: Water is Life Festival; Win! Pressure Forces U.S. Federal Government to Restart Invasive Carp Project; Quarry Expansion in Ontario, Despite Community Wishes; Copperwood Mine Update; Funding Available for Your Water Work; Upcoming Online…
This week: Win! Minnesota Governor Issues Order to Protect the Boundary Waters Watershed; Funding Available for Your Water Work; Upcoming Online and In-Person Events
This Week: Win! Detroit Community Action Improves Local Flooding; Large Water Withdrawals & Principles; Despite Planned Watershed Agency Consolidation, Local Canadian Leaders Continue to Push Back; Funding Available; Upcoming Events
This Week: Today is #WeAreLakeErie Day; Blog: Stay Safe at the Beach; Funding Available for Your Water Work; Upcoming Online and In-Person Events
This week: #WeAreLakeErie Day; Win! Michigan Supreme Court Rules Against Line 5 Tunnel Permit; Data Centers and the Resurgence of Dirty Energy; U.S. Federal Government Pauses Invasive Carp Project; Updated! Upcoming Online and In-Person Events
This Week: Win! Ohio EPA listens to Advocates’ Data Center Wastewater Concerns; Pushback Continues Against Ontario’s Conservation Authority Consolidation Plans; Upcoming Events
This Week: Calling All Lake Erie Lovers; Indiana Seeks Coal Ash Oversight as Federal Rules are Rolled Back; Thank You for Taking Action on Canada’s Major Projects; Upcoming Events: Save Your Spot!
This Week: Win! New York Hits Pause on Data Centers; Letter to Lake Erie; Freshwater Future Appeals Ruling Against Clean Water Permits; Michigan Approves Tunnel Permits; Water Levels Rise This Year; Canadian Government Opposes First…
This week: Upcoming Events; Check Out Your Beach’s Water Quality; Superior, Wisconsin Takes Steps to Make Water System Public; Canadian Leaders Announce Pipeline Proposal; Update on Harmful Wetlands Bills; Proposed Michigan Hydropower Dam Sale
This week: New Spring Project Grantees; Win! Land Returned to Fond du Lac Band; Upcoming Events; New York Residents, Pause Data Center Development; Michigan Residents: Stand Up for Wetland Protections; Pennsylvania Residents: Urge your Representatives…
This Week: Win! MI Organization Celebrates Court Ban on Nuclear Waste Storage; Canadian Labor Union Takes Action Against Water System Outsourcing; Oppose the Line 5 Construction Wastewater Permit; New York Residents, Pause Data Center Development;…
This week: Staff News; Take Precautions Against Lead in Drinking Water; Flood Focus App Heading to New Orleans; Canada’s First Nations Deserve Clean Water; No Wastewater Permit for Line 5; Pass the NY Data Center…
This Week: Upcoming Events; Canadian Community Stands Up for Mining Reform; New York Adopts Bills to Address Data Centers; Stand Up for Wetland Protections; Pennsylvania Residents: Support Public and Affordable Water; Michigan Residents: Judge Recommends…
This week: Freshwater Voices; Sulfide Mining and the Great Lakes; Upcoming Events; Pennsylvania Residents: Urge your Representatives; Michigan Residents: Oppose the Dam Sale; Minnesota Wants to Get Lead Pipes Out, but Limits Funds
This Week: Save your spot at these upcoming events; New! Digital State-by-State Guide to the Great Lakes Compact; New York Residents: Urge Your Representatives to Pass the Lead Pipe Replacement Act; Michigan Residents: Support Dam…
This Week: New Blog! When the Water Came Back On; Register for Mindfulness and Movement; New York Residents: Pass the Lead Pipe Replacement Act; Michigan Residents: Support Dam Safety and Affordable Energy; Federal Actions Dismantling…
This Week: Freshwater Future Joins Call for Emergency Action on Nitrate Contamination; Save Your Spot! Register Today for Upcoming Events; Michigan Residents: Support Dam Safety and Affordable Energy
This Week: Michigan Residents: Support Dam Safety and Affordable Energy; Upcoming Events; Update on Water Privatization in Canada
This Week: New Events - Save your Spot; Southeast Michigan Water Utility Pauses Water Access for Data Centers; Ontario Government Fast Tracks Bill to Officially Merge Most Conservation Authorities
This Week: Freshwater Future Will Not Be Silenced: We Stand with Southern Poverty Law Center; Take Some Time for Yourself - Join Us Next Wednesday; Join the Freshwater Future Team; Hope Persists Despite Repeal of…
This Week: Upcoming Events - Save Your Spot; Indiana Residents: Knowledge is Power: Apply for Free Private Well Testing; State Legislative Update: Large Water Withdrawals and Data Centers; Join the Freshwater Future Team!
This Week: Grow with These April Events; Join the Freshwater Future Team; Win! Release of PFAS Funding is Positive First Step for Impacted Communities; Canadian Federal Budget Cuts Water Agency Funding; Support Public Water Systems…
This Week: Basketball Supporting Safe Drinking Water; 2025 Freshwater Heroes; Grow with These April Events; Join the Freshwater Future Team; Support Public Water Systems and Affordability in Pennsylvania
This Week: Bidding for Special Edition Basketball Jerseys; Spring Project Grants; Mindfulness and Movement; Celebrate the Freshwater Heroes; Fundraising Basics for Nonprofits; Join the Team; Win! PA Bill Supporting Public Water Systems Advances to House…
This Week: Celebrate Freshwater Heroes; Women’s History Month and Stewardship of our Waters; Join Us: Grand Rapids Gold & Founders Brewing; Mindfulness and Movement; Join the Freshwater Future Team!
This Week: Spring Project Grants; Michigan Advocates Push for Solutions to Ensure Affordable Water; Save Your Spot at these Upcoming Events; Resource - Understanding the Offsite Water Use of Data Centers
This week: New Board Member, Vel Scott; Upcoming Events; Spring Project Grants; Stand Up for Ontario’s Conservation Authorities
This Week: Thank You to The Fred and Barbara Erb Family Foundation; Welcome, Andrew; Upcoming Events; Now Accepting Spring Project Grant Proposals; Indiana Residents, Time to Reach out to Your State Senator (Again!)
This Week: Mindfulness and Movement; Funding for Your Local Water Advocacy; Stop Indiana Senate Bill 277; Chicago-Area Organization Influences New County Environmental Justice Policy; Canada and U.S. Take-On Plastic Pollution; Future Events
This Week: Community Support Protects Our Waters; Canada’s Lake Ontario Fish Habitat Information Session; Grant Writing Learning Session; Mindfulness and Movement; Now Accepting Grant Proposals; Oppose a Federal Proposal Harmful to Waterways; Indiana Residents -…
This Week: Thank You to the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation; Learning Opportunities; Mindfulness and Movement; Grant Cycle Open; Protect Waterways from Federal Deregulation; Indiana Residents - Urgent Action; Tonawanda Seneca Nation’s Data Center Fight; Learning…
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;…
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
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
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…
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…
This week: Enhance your Organization’s Cyber Security; Make a Difference with Your Year-End Gift; New – Protect Wetlands and Clean Water: No Changes to the Definition of “Waters of the United States”
This Week: No Changes to the Definition of “Waters of the United States”; Make a Difference with Your Year-End Gift; Enhance your Organization’s Cyber Security; Advocates Rally for Community Protections from Data Centers
This Week: Mindfulness and Meditation; Win! No Public Funds for Private Wastewater Systems; Your Year-End Gift is More Important Than Ever; Canadian Cabinet Resignation Highlights Pattern of Limited Engagement with Indigenous Communities
Thank you for Supporting Our Work; Grateful for Our Volunteers; Tell your U.S. Rep and Senators: Vote NO on the Anti-Clean Water Bill; Keeping Your Nonprofit Compliant and Safe; Mindfulness and Movement
This week: Keeping Chicago Residents Informed About Lead; Double the Impact of Your Donation on Giving Tuesday; Keeping Your Nonprofit Compliant and Safe; Mindfulness and Meditation; Ontario Advocates Protest Passage of Bill that Supports Private…
This Week: Keeping Your Nonprofit Compliant and Safe; Mindfulness and Meditation; Buffalo Warned of Unaffordable Water Rates to Replace Lead Pipes; Drinking Water Control, Safety, and Affordability at Risk under Ontario’s Bill 60
This Week: Pellston One Step Closer to Safe Drinking Water; Keeping Your Nonprofit Compliant; Mindfulness and Meditation; Win! Minnesota Mine Must Limit Sulfate Pollution to Protect Wild Rice
This Week: Mindfulness and Meditation; Win! Data Center Approvals Canceled Following Legal Violations; Halloween Rally Protests the Restart of Nuclear Reactor; Ontario’s Don River Needs Better Protection; Webinar: Big Oil vs Big Water; Funding Opportunity
This Week: Win! The Michigan Affordable Water Now Package! Improved Clean Water Protections for Michigan’s Factory Farms; U.S. Non-Profits: Take Action and Review Your New GoFundMe Donation Page; Mindfulness and Meditation; Freshwater Future’s Statement on…
This Week: Thanks for Joining Us; Last Week for Free Coffee; Is Your Organization Concerned About Large Water Withdrawals; No Federal Funds for For-Profit Wastewater Systems; Key Minerals in Data Centers
This week: Join Us at Patagonia in Chicago; October’s Mindfulness Session; FREE bag of coffee from Superior Coffee Roasting Co.; No Federal Funds for For-Profit Wastewater Systems; Contact U.S. Lawmakers to Protect Our Water; New…
This Week: Win! West Michigan Lake Remediated and Removed from Toxic Site List; Join for October’s Online Mindfulness Session; During October, Donate and Receive a FREE Bag of Coffee from Superior Coffee Roasting Co.; Continue…
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Last Chance for Project Grant Applications; Keep Up the Pressure Against the PERMIT Act; Protect Lake Superior; Michigan Lakefront Property Owners - Your Lake Foam is Needed; Canadian Corporations Push Domestic Data Centers
This Week: Fall Project Grants; Reverend Pinkney: A Tireless Advocate for Drinking Water in Benton Harbor; Tell Leaders to Deny Taxpayer Funds for the Copperwood Mine; First Permanent Sea Lamprey Trap Installed; Thank You for…
This Week: Walk Paddle & Roll Challenge; New: Large Water Withdrawal Network; Fall Project Grants Due September 30; Is Silicon Valley's Next Expansion into the Great Lakes; Protect Lake Superior and the Porcupine Mountains State…
This Week: Register for Mindfulness and Movement; Will You Donate to Keep the Work Flowing; Fall Project Grants Are Open; Win for Clean Water in Wisconsin; Take Actions; Job Opportunities
This Week: Walk, Paddle, & Roll; A Less Toxic Lake Erie is Still Possible Despite Climate Change; Fall Project Grant Q&A Webinar; Take Actions: Together, Our Voices Make a Difference; New Illinois Law Bans PFAS…
This Week: Join Our 2025 Walk, Paddle, & Roll; #WeAreLakeErie; Fall Project Grant Q&A Webinar; Tell Michigan’s EGLE to Deny the Line 5 Tunnel Permit; Support Improved Equity in the Michigan Water Fund; Protect Lake…
This Week: Support Jill as She Paddles for Clean Water; Fall Grant Cycle for Advocacy Projects; Take Actions: Together, Our Voices Make a Difference; Canadian Government Agency’s Focus on Invasive Species Prevention
This week: Right Now, Lake Erie Needs You; Virtual Blue Community Conversations; Mindfulness August 14th; Get Ready for Walk, Paddle, and Roll; Take Actions; Job Opportunities
This Week: Take Actions: Together, Our Voices Make a Difference; Highlighting Lake Erie In August; Get Ready for Walk, Paddle, and Roll; Job Opportunities
This Week: Mindfulness and Movement; Support Strong CAFO Permits in Michigan; The Aquaculture Conversation in the Great Lakes; Climate Change Trends; Advocates Push Ontario to Address Elevated Lead in Schools; Save the Date
This Week: Tell the EPA: Don’t Change Clean Water Protections; Mindfulness and Meditation; Virtual Screening “Unheard Voices: The Fight for the Tonawanda Seneca Nation’s Way of Life”; Major First Nations Water Bill Opposed; Upcoming Events–Save…
This Week: July 31 at 11:30 am ET - Mindfulness and Meditation; Yes, Our Voices Improved Congress’ Big, Ugly Bill; Landback Victory for Four Anishinaabe First Nations in Western Ontario; Illinois Adds More High-Risk Communities…
This Week: Victory in Wisconsin: State Supreme Court Affirms that Polluters Pay for Spills; Win! Toronto Passes Road Salt Ordinance to Protect Water and Ecosystems; Save the Date: Water Is Life Festival - August 30,…
This Week: Spring Project Grantees; Thank you to the Fred and Barbara Erb Family Foundation); No Michigan Taxpayer Dollars for the Copperwood Mine; Tell Your Senators to Protect Nonprofits in the Budget & Tax Bill
Take Action- Tell Your Senators to Protect Nonprofits in the Budget & Tax Bill; Join Our Monthly Mindfulness + Movement Practice; Blue Economy Blog; Chiefs of Ontario and Allies Rally Against Proposed Bill C-5
This Week: Big Step Forward for Water Affordability in Michigan; Join Our Monthly Mindfulness + Movement Practice for Water Protectors; Welcome, 2025 Summer Fellows!
This Week: Freshwater Future Hero Spotlight; UPDATED ACTION: Stand with Protect the Porkies: No Taxpayer Dollars for the Copperwood Mine – Again; Great Lakes Water Levels at Lowest in Over a Decade
This Week: Celebrating Safe Drinking Water for Erie, PA Students; Stand with Protect the Porkies: No Taxpayer Dollars for the Copperwood Mine – Again; Michigan Residents Deserve Meaningful Public Engagement; Work Proceeds to Stop Invasive…
This Week: [Take Action] No Taxpayer Dollars for the Copperwood Mine – Again; [Take Action] Michigan Residents Deserve Meaningful Public Engagement; Join Our Monthly Mindfulness + Movement; New Law Shifts Water System Control in Birmingham, AL;…
This Week: Training Webinar: Your Voice Needed on Michigan Drinking Water Fund; Join Our Monthly Mindfulness + Movement Practice for Water Protectors; Deadline Approaching: Stop Ontario’s Bill 5
This Week: Training Webinars: Your Voice Needed on Drinking Water Fund; Join Our Monthly Mindfulness + Movement; New Date Announced: Last Chance to Speak Up and Defend Wetlands
This Week: Using Community Power to Address Flooding in Detroit; Join Our Monthly Mindfulness + Movement Practice for Water Protectors; Syracuse, NY Water System Under Review by U.S. EPA; Duluth’s $3 Million Lake Superior Shoreline…
This Week: Freshwater Future Hero Spotlight; No Oil in the Great Lakes: Stop Permits for Canadian Pipeline Project; Water Watchers & Wellness Webinar: Fundraising Basics
This Week: Water Watchers & Wellness Webinar: Fundraising Basics Webinar; Your Voice Needed to Protect Wetlands and Clean Water; We Need the Lake Erie Harmful Algal Bloom Forecast; Freshwater Voices Newsletter Available Online; Register for…
This Week: United States Wetlands Are Under Attack: Take Action Now; Register for Mindfulness & Movement: Thursday, April 24; Wisconsin’s Sole Private Water System Stalls on Lead Pipe Removal; Welcome Randy Smith to Freshwater Future’s…
This Week: Water Watchers & Wellness Webinar: Volunteer Power; All About Water Convening Recording Available; Register for April’s Mindfulness & Movement; Don’t Be Afraid–Tips for Using Social Media and Advocacy; Meet Our Fall Project Grantees:…
This Week: Apply Now for a Spring Project Grant; Thanks for a Great All About Water Virtual Convening; Water Watchers & Wellness Webinar; Meet Freshwater Future’s Amazing New Board Member: Jaclyn Wegner!
This Week: Tomorrow is World Water Day; Apply Now for a Spring Project Grant; Fall Project Grantee Spotlight: The Ontario Headwaters Institute; Nuclear Plant Receives Federal Funding to Reopen; Further Listening; Don’t Miss Out on…
This Week: Win! Federal Great Lakes + Environmental Justice Staff Reinstated; Applications Open for Canadian Freshwater Sustainability and Innovation Projects; Biggest Deregulatory Effort in History; Great Lakes Agreements on the Chopping Block; EPA to Reduce…
This Week: Deadline March 31st: Freshwater Future’s Spring Project Grants; Meet Our Fall Project Grantees: Protect The Porkies; Legislators Say No to Undercutting the Clean Water Act; Cuts and Dismantling of the National Oceanic and…
This Week: Webinar: Demystifying Budgets; Congrats to Our Freshwater Heroes; Win! Wisconsin Court Sides with Locals Over Polluting Factory Farms; Concerns from the North Side of the Great Lakes; Spring Project Grants Deadline March 30
This Week: Four Events Guaranteed to Boost Your Water Work; Request for Proposals: Freshwater Future’s Spring Project Grants
This Week: Register for the Freshwater Heroes Celebration; Join Us for Movement & Mindfulness on February 27; Take Action on Federal Changes Threatening Great Lakes Communities; Join Us in Rochester, NY for All About Water…
This Week: Freshwater Future’s Spring Project Grants; Meet Water Watchers; Join Us in Rochester, NY for All About Water; Advocates Work for Improvements in the Steel Industry; Freshwater Heroes Celebration; Join Us for Movement &…
This Week: Freshwater Future’s Ongoing Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity; Tell Congress to Keep Critical Lead in Drinking Water Protections; Early-bird Registration Ends Today for All About Water on March 27th; Tomorrow Begins the Black…
This Week: RFP: Freshwater Future’s Spring Project Grants; Meet Seneca Lake Pure Waters Association; Register - Freshwater Heroes Celebration; Join Us in Rochester, NY for All About Water; Ice Coverage Doubles on Lake Erie in…
This Week: Deadline January 31st: Join Us in Rochester, NY for All About Water; Spring Grant Applications Due March 31st; Lawsuit Threatens New National Lead in Drinking Water Protections; Ice Breakers on the St. Clair…
This Week: New York’s New Climate and Fracking Laws; Join Us in Rochester, NY for All About Water on March 27th; Restore and Renew with Mindfulness & Movement Starting January 30th
This Week: A Year in Review; Grant Writing Webinar and Mindfulness & Movement; Your Year-End Gift to Protect the Great Lakes; Register for All About Water; Indigenous Circle of Experts to Advise International Joint Commission…
This Week: Happy Holidays; Win! Energy Permitting Reform Act Voted Down; Protect our Great Lakes and Communities; Grant Writing Webinar and Mindfulness & Movement; Take Action to Protect Michigan’s Wetlands from Potash Mining; Join Us…
This Week: 70,000 Gallon Oil Spill + Pipeline Reroute; Win! No Tax Dollars for Copper Mine in Porcupine Mountains; Environmental Justice Grants Available; Your Year-End Gift Is Urgent; Grant Writing Webinar and Mindfulness & Movement…
This Week: Your Year-End Gift Is Urgent Now More Than Ever to Protect the Great Lakes; Join Us in Rochester, NY on March 27th, 2025 for All About Water; Understanding the Political Landscape of the…
Your #GivingTuesday Donations are Making a Difference in the Great Lakes Region; Mail from Your Water Utility Won’t be a Holiday Card; Fighting for Freshwater, Not Lakes of Mine-Waste; Join Us in Rochester, NY for…
This Week: #GivingTuesday – Making a Difference in the Great Lakes; The Hill Publishes Jill Ryan’s Opinion Piece on the Dangerous Energy Permitting Reform Act; Stewarding Nmé (Lake Sturgeon) in the Great Lakes
This Week: Urgent Action: Proposed Energy Bill Would Harm the Great Lakes – Call + Email your Senator Today; Save the Date to support #GivingTuesday on Dec 3rd; One Year Later: The Battle for Canada’s…
This Week: Win! Community Action Pays Off as Water Bottler Exits Ontario; All Eyes on Syracuse, NY: High Lead in Drinking Water, Low Accountability; Improve Equity in Minnesota’s Drinking Water Fund
This Week: Post-Election: The Work Continues; The Voices Newsletter is Ready for You! Read Now; Mindfulness & Movement for Post-Election Stress; Improve Equity in Minnesota’s Drinking Water Fund
What Does La Nina Mean for Winter in the Great Lakes; Your Voice is Needed! Improve Equity in Minnesota’s Drinking Water Fund; Rochester Embayment Delisted as a Great Lakes Area of Concern
This Week: Toronto Stormwater Management Incentives Program; New Ballast Water Standards Create Loophole; Welcome Maggie Fritz to the Freshwater Future Team!
This Week: Standing Up for Chester Water Authority: Save Public Water; How Fair Market Value Legislation is Paving the Way for Privatization; Register for Movement and Mindfulness; Technology Used to Track Muskie and Lake Sturgeon