Data Centers: Impact and What You Can Do in Your Community
Data centers are emerging rapidly across the country, and decisions about where they are built often rest with local governments. City councils, county boards, and planning commissions handle zoning and…
Volunteers Navigate a Bureaucratic Maze to Stop Dangerous Pollution
Karen Daponte Thornton, Little Falls Watershed Alliance In late December 2024, the Montgomery County, Md., Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) proclaimed big news on Facebook: “Huge shoutout to the DEP…
“The Young IKE” Podcast Turns Listeners into Participants
Griffith Pugh, founder of The Young Ike, is a student at Haverford College, a founding member of the Green Crew at the League’s Minnesota Valley Chapter and member of the…
Des Plaines Ikes demonstrate advocacy in action
Advocating for conservation of natural resources spurred the Izaak Walton League’s establishment in 1922 when our founders became alarmed by the toll development and pollution were taking on places they…
Izaak Walton League comments to USDA: Keep and strengthen Roadless Rule, do not rescind it
The League sent a letter to the USDA urging the Department to maintain the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which protects unfractured backcountry in our national forests by limiting new road…
Celebrating 10 Years of Community Science Across the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
The Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative (CMC) is proud to celebrate its 10-year anniversary in 2025. Since its formation in 2015 through a partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay…
Fed up with nitrate pollution, local group puts up billboards in Iowa
The problem of nitrate pollution in drinking water has swelled to a crisis in parts of the Midwest, California, the Gulf of Mexico and other places where agricultural runoff or…
‘EPA’s stream decision is a step backward’
In this letter to the editor, Terence Turnovsky, President of the Linn County Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America, expresses concern about the removal of seven stream segments…
Meet a Monitor: Caroline van Schaik
Caroline van Schaik is a Save Our Streams volunteer and a force for clean water in southeast Minnesota. For over 5 years, Caroline has organized a group of fellow water…
Your kit will include a bottle containing 25 nitrate test strips which you can use to test your water source(s) throughout the year. You’ll also receive postcards explaining how to use your nitrate test strips and how to share your Nitrate Watch results on the Clean Water Hub.
Your kit will include four test strips so you can test your waterway throughout the season. You’ll also receive a chart to help you interpret your results and a postcard with instructions for completing a Salt Watch test and reporting your findings.