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Remembering Barb Gifford“Barb has made a significant, lasting impact on the people of Portage County and water advocates across Wisconsin by teaching the next generation about the importance of our water resources through Little Plover River field days.” - Wisconsin State Representative... Read More

This is the introductory article for the Fall 2014 River Alliance Newsletter. Click on the image below to download a pdf of the newsletter. Wish for - but ACT too - for Clean Water We had a notion last spring that an election year would be a great time to raise questions about challenges... Read More

Crying Out From Kewaunee County As we've reported in our #wish4waterWI campaign and heard from Susan Connor, Kewaunee County is soaked in cow manure. That county board just passed a resolution calling for some limits on manure spreading. The town of Lincoln, in Kewaunee County, on its own... Read More

One of our featured water activists of our #wish4waterWI campaign, Aurora Conley, mused, "I just wish for my children, and eventually their children, to have a safe and healthy community." Aurora is a member of the Bad River Tribe of Lake Superior Chippewa. The threat to the Tribe's water and... Read More

You know from our #wish4waterWI campaign and Susan Connor's story of her and her neighbors' struggles living with avalanches of manure in Kewaunee County. Their greatest fear is that the state of Wisconsin could allow what is euphemistically called "manure irrigation" -- that is, the... Read More