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
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
Freshwater Future Weekly: December 23, 2025
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”
Freshwater Future Weekly: December 19, 2025
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
Freshwater Future Weekly: December 12, 2025
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
Freshwater Future Weekly: December 5, 2025
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
Freshwater Future Weekly: November 26, 2025
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 Take Over of Public Water Supplies
Freshwater Future Weekly: November 21, 2025
This Week: Keeping Your Nonprofit Compliant and Safe Into the Future; 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
Freshwater Future Weekly: November 14, 2025
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
Freshwater Future Weekly: November 7, 2025
This Week: Mindfulness and Meditation; Win! Western New York Data Center Approvals Canceled Following Legal Violations; Halloween Rally Protests the Restart of “Zombie” Nuclear Reactor; Researchers: Ontario’s Don River Needs Better Protection from Plastics; Webinar: Big Oil vs Big Water; Funding Opportunity
Freshwater Future Weekly: December 28, 2023
This Week: There’s Still Time to Give your Year-End Gift to Bring People One Step Closer to Having Clean and Safe Water; Year in Review: Protecting the People and the Waters of the Great Lakes; Meet One of our Fall 2023 Grantees: Superior Rivers Watershed Association; New York Passes the Lead Pipe Right to Know Act! There’s Still Time to Give your Year-End […]
Freshwater Future Weekly: December 21, 2023
This Week: Your Gift Today, Support Our Fight for Safe Drinking Water; Strengthening the New Lead and Copper Rule: Replacing Lead Pipes with Plastic Pipes is Not the Solution; Application Deadlines Announced for Canada’s Great Lakes Freshwater Ecosystem Initiative Funds; Meet Our Fall 2023 Grantees; Michigan’s Eagle Mine Seeks Underground Mining Expansion; As a Warm Winter […]
Freshwater Future Weekly: December 15, 2023
This Week: Take Action – Use your Voice to Ensure the Strongest Lead Protections in Drinking Water; Rocket Launch Site on Lake Superior Blocked; Give and support NO Lead is Safe; Road Salt is Harming Our Waters – Meet the Advocates Fighting for a Solution; Open-Pit Mine Threatens Lake Superior with Acid Mine Drainage Take Action: […]
Freshwater Future Weekly: December 8, 2023
Make Your Voice Heard: The New Lead and Copper Draft Rule is Out; Give Your Year-End Gift and support NO Lead is Safe; Line 5 Tunnel Granted Permit by Michigan Public Service Commission; Win! Proposed Golf Course on Wisconsin Lakeshore Park Blocked; Elevated Lead Levels Found in Pennsylvania Schools’ Drinking […]
Freshwater Future Weekly: November 22, 2023
This Week: #GivingTuesday Next Week; Freshwater Voices Newsletter Available Online; Staying Vigilant: Freshwater Future Watches for Lead in your Drinking Water; Thousands of Minnesotans’ Drinking Water Contaminated with Nitrate; Public Meeting About Barrier to Prevent Grass Carp from Migrating to Lake Erie #GivingTuesday Next Week – A Day of Giving, Sharing, […]
Freshwater Future Weekly: November 17, 2023
This Week: Save the Date: #Giving Tuesday; Grantee Highlight: Environment North is Taking on Nuclear Waste; Freshwater Future in DC; PFAS Found in 71% of Wisconsin’s Shallow Private Drinking Wells; Freshwater Future Receives Highest Ratings by Candid and Charity Navigator Save the Date: #GivingTuesday, November 28th – A Day of […]
Freshwater Future Weekly: November 3, 2023
Deadline November 13th: Your Voice is Needed to Improve Minnesota’s Water System Funding; Seneca Lake Guardian Providing PFAS Test Kits to Residents Near New York’s Largest Landfill; Salmon Farms and Our Great Lakes; Proposed House Funding Bill Guts Clean Water Programs; No One Held Accountable for the Flint Water Crisis […]
Freshwater Future Weekly: October 27, 2023
Detroit’s Jefferson-Chalmers Neighborhood Set to Receive $11.2 from FEMA; Deadline November 13th: Your Voice is Needed to Improve Minnesota’s Water System Funding; Freshwater Future Has You Covered for National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week; Success!! Freshwater Future Grantee Highlight: Meet the Wellington Water Watchers! Detroit’s Jefferson-Chalmers Neighborhood Set to Receive $11.2 […]
Freshwater Future Weekly: October 20, 2023
This Week: Tell Congress to Renew Federal Water Assistance Program; Lobbying Basics for Nonprofits; Improve Minnesota’s Water System Funding; New Law Mandates Universal Lead Testing for Michigan Toddlers; Prevent a Nickel Mine from Polluting Lake Superior; Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Crypto-Mining Site on Seneca Lake Over Warm Water Discharges […]