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March 20, 2024
MWMO Announces $2.1 Million in Grant Awards
New Green Infrastructure Projects Planned for Fridley and Minneapolis (PDF Version) MINNEAPOLIS — A slate of new MWMO grant awards will fund a...
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Help Your Kids Learn about Protecting Water with these Fun and Colorful Books
Winter has arrived! What a great time of year to huddle with your kids, break out the hot chocolate and grab a few books to read. Some fun new additions […]
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In Fridley, students learn how to be good neighbors to the Mississippi River
Last week, a small army of students at Stevenson Elementary School mobilized to fill the school’s new rain garden with plants. We captured the event in a time-lapse video; as […]
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Everything you need to know about chloride pollution, in the form of a music video
By day, Mark Pedelty, Tim Gustafson and Robert Poch are professors at the University of Minnesota. By night, the trio form The Hypoxic Punks, an environmentally conscious folk-punk band spreading […]
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Great partnerships made 2017 a successful year for the MWMO
As we consider our accomplishments over the past year, it’s always tempting to think in terms of numbers: how many big projects were completed, how many ribbon-cuttings or ground-breakings were […]
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East Side Neighborhood Services youth become ‘water watchers’
Like many of us, James Taborda-Whitt hadn’t spent much time thinking about the value of the Mississippi River and its surrounding watershed. Sure, it’s one of the largest rivers in […]