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AWW at the 2024 Alabama Water Rally 
By Sergio RuizCordova

Every March for the past 26 years, the Alabama Rivers Alliance holds the Alabama Water Rally to recognize and celebrate notable organizations and individuals who have made outstanding contributions toward protecting clean water and healthy rivers in Alabama.

AWW has been part of many of those events, conducting water monitoring certification training and celebrating the recognition of the River Heroes and other award winners who may also be AWW monitors. This year, as many others in the past, the Rally was held at the beautiful and unique Camp McDowell at the edge of the Bankhead National Forest in Winston County, Alabama. 

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Join us for the 2024 Alabama Water Watch Annual Meeting on Saturday, June 8 at the Kreher Preserve and Nature Center in Auburn, AL! Please refer to this page for details and updates.

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The message for World Water Day 2024 is “Water for Peace.” Every year, World Water Day, coordinated by United Nations-Water, raises awareness and inspires action by providing information and tools individuals can use to help tackle the ever-growing global water and sanitation crisis.  

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AWW Staffer Sydney Zinner was joined by AWWesome Volunteer Trainers Hana Berres, Anne Krichten and new Trainer Intern Dr. Cindy Tant at the Birmingham Zoo for a series of Water Chemistry, Bacteriological, and Stream Biomonitoring Trainings. 

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Since 2019, AWW has been working with the US Forest Service to build a network of citizen scientists to collect valuable water quality data from waterbodies in Alabama’s National Forests (NFALs). To date, volunteer monitors assisting with the project have submitted over 600 water data records from NFALs. You can learn more from the project’s StoryMap.

We are looking for our next cohort of volunteers who can continue the mission of this project and help expand it to new NFAL’s!

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By: Jera Dills

AWW Staffers Mona, Sergio, Sydney, and Jera kicked the new year off strong by completing the first training session of 2024 in early February! We were very excited to have a diverse gathering of Extension and 4-H Agents, college professors and students from Huntingdon College, Faulkner University, and Auburn University at Montgomery, members of the newly formed Friends of the Alabama River, Lake Jordan HOBOs, and many others who cohesively shared a goal to protect Alabama’s waterways through routine monitoring.

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Jera started with Alabama Water Watch and the AU Water Resources Center in February 2024 and will help with marketing and communications, event organizing, volunteer coordination, data processing, and more! She is a fantastic addition to AWW and the WRC as she is very enthusiastic about her work and brings a positive energy to everything she does!

We’d like to officially welcome Jera to the team and want you all to get to know her a little better through the Q&A below.

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Alabama Water Watch, in partnership with the USDA Forest Service, is excited to announce the next round of the water quality monitoring project in the National Forests in Alabama!

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For the first time, Alabama Water Watch is seeking nominations from program participants and partners to recognize outstanding volunteers.

Nominations will be open through March 5th. Winners will be notified at the end of March and will be presented with their award at the 2024 AWW Annual Meeting in Auburn, AL on Saturday, June 8.

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