Rochester: To the Source - Brown Bag Lunch
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Moving Minnesota's Water Governance Upstream
Friday, February 1912:00 - 1:30
Heintz Center Commons
1926 College View Drive SE
Rochester, MN
$3; free for RCTC and Winona State students with valid ID
Attendees are invited to bring a brown bag lunch
A study committee of Citizens League members spent a year evaluating the ways that we address water pollution in Minnesota. The committee found:
- We have a water pollution problem. Forty percent of evaluated waters in Minnesota are found to be impaired.
- Most water pollution comes from "nonpoint sources" -- runoff from roads, roofs, parking lots, and agricultural practices.It is coming from our private properties, from our roads, from our farms, from our businesses. This is much different from past decades, where the biggest pollution sources were "point" sources, like industrial discharges and wastewater treatment facilities.
- We need to engage individual citizens, farmers, businesses, and all the public to address this problem. The kind of water pollution we face today is not a problem that government alone can solve.
Join former state senator and DNR Commissioner Gene Merriam and St. Paul resident and organizer Janna Caywood to discuss how the ways we manage water must become more collaborative in order to address water problems.
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Co-sponsored by Rochester Community and Technical College |
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