SOS Annual Report 2024
A summary of the data collected and progress made by IWLA’s Clean Water Program in 2024.
Success Stories
View examples of times when Save Our Streams volunteers used their monitoring data to successfully advocate for cleaner water.
A Beginner’s Guide to Water Quality Communication
Learn tips and tricks for communicating about water quality to a variety of audiences.
Iowa Swampbuster Lawsuit Threatens Wetlands Nationwide (Webinar)
For decades, Swampbuster provisions in the Farm Bill have protected wetlands on agricultural land, representing an important pact between taxpayers and farmers that receive government benefits. An ongoing federal lawsuit…
Advocacy 101: Speak Up For Clean Water (Webinar)
It is important to speak up for the issues we care about, but it can sometimes feel daunting and difficult to get started. Learn from Jessica Gordon, Izaak Walton League…
Environmental Justice & Water Quality Toolkit
This document is meant to serve as a brief introduction to the following topics: environmental justice, environmental racism, intersectionality, and the connection between these topics and water quality. It provides…
Removing Barriers to Conservation with Batch-and-Build (Webinar)
Conservation practices like saturated buffers and bioreactors have incredible potential to improve water quality, but there are plenty of barriers that prevent farmers and landowners from installing them. This is…
Strategies to Reduce Nutrient Pollution (Webinar)
Nutrient pollution in surface water and groundwater is a huge issue, but there are practices that are proven to help. Dr. Lindsay Pease, University of Minnesota Assistant Professor and Extension…
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.