Water Studies

The Michigan Water Environment Association (MWEA), established in 1925, is one of Michigan's oldest organizations. MWEA represents more than 2,000 water quality professionals statewide who are dedicated to preserving, restoring and enhancing Michigan's water resources.

The Office of the Great Lakes works to protect and restore our state’s waters. The team works with partners to support sustainable communities, restore degraded waters, manage water quality and quantity, and prevent aquatic invasive species.

The Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy's mission is to protect Michigan’s environment and public health by managing air, water, land, and energy resources.

Using storytelling and music events across the state to amplify the groundswell of public support for clean water issues, the Clean Water Campaign represents an opportunity to help place clean water issues front and center by urging every candidate running for public office to make a strong stand on key issues affecting Michigan’s waters.

Mission: To ensure the healthy future of our waters in the Great Lakes region. Vision: A strong and effective environmental community working to protect and restore the Great Lakes and its many waters by involving residents in civic decision-making.

Our Mission: to protect Michigan's surface and ground waters from pollution, plunder, and privatization through education, advocacy, and action.

Goal: Protect our rivers, lakes, streams and other waterways by uniting over 250 local and regional groups so they can be more effective clean water champions.

The Alliance for the Great Lakes is a nonpartisan nonprofit working across the region to protect our most precious resource: the fresh, clean, and natural waters of the Great Lakes.

The America’s WETLAND Foundation (AWF) established in Louisiana, and working throughout the Gulf region, was founded in 2002 in response to a comprehensive coastal study calling on the need to alert the nation to the devastating loss of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands and how their loss impacts the rest of the nation.

Since our founding during the campaign to pass the landmark Clean Water Act in 1972, Clean Water Action has worked to win strong health and environmental protections by bringing issue expertise, solution-oriented thinking and people power to the table.

Good source of data about sea levels, tides, weather and climate patterns, and coastal issues.

Nonprofit advocacy group focused on protecting ecological health of bays and estuaries

Our mission is to protect human health and the environment.

This tool from the USGS allows you to select a watershed and then view all relevant USGS publications and data related to that watershed.

Facing the challenges of sustainably managing and sharing water — our most precious natural resource — requires collaboration, education and outreach. Since 1977, the Water Education Foundation has put water resource issues in California and the West in context to inspire a deep understanding of and appreciation for water.

Joint U.S.-Canada decision-making body governing international policy agreements about the Great Lakes and other transboundary waters.

Conserving the lands and waters on which all life depends

Thirst Project is a nonprofit organization that works with the support of young people to END the global water crisis by building freshwater wells in developing communities that need safe, clean drinking water.

Water For People is a global nonprofit that helps people bring clean water and sanitation solutions to their communities for generations to come.

We’re the largest and fastest growing nonprofit solely focused on clean water. We preserve and protect water by connecting local Waterkeeper groups worldwide.

Together we make water a global priority.