In Carver County and metrowide, new no-wake laws require boats to slow way down. However aggravating to boaters, these laws help protect and preserve our irreplaceable lakes. Read the article for more information.

The Friends of the Minnesota Valley are looking for teachers and administrators to help train, and lead, students monitoring the river's water quality.

In partnership with the city of Bloomington and Metro Blooms, the District this year helped fund Green Streets for Blue Waters, a project to help mitigate stormwater runoff into the Minnesota River

The University of Minnesota Extension Service explains how the town of Winnebago plans to reduce pollutants on the Blue Earth River, a tributary of the Minnesota River. With a loan from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and other funds, the town will upgrade infrastructure and reduce water volume and pollution entering the river beginning next year.

A couple of hours west of the Twin Cities, on US 212, Renville County is one of the state's most intensive agriculture areas. It's also intensively farmed, or "agged," as conservationist Tom Kalahar attests.