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MWMO Newsletter — July 2026 — River Songs Edition

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In This Issue: Poetry, Affordable Housing, River Art, Staff Updates, Upcoming Events, and More Read the Newsletter ...

A group of English language learners study a mural at the Maplewood Mall.

Recent Immigrants Become Water Stewards

Images and story courtesy Clean Water Minnesota. Adult students learning English at Harmony Learning Center in Maplewood, Minn. are becoming water stewards as they learn idioms and conjugate verbs. These […]
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Uptown Wedge resident Joe Knaeble.

The Iceman Cometh—Sidewalk Salt Pollutes Our Lakes and Streams

Images and story courtesy Clean Water Minnesota. Uptown Wedge resident Joe Knaeble is concerned with a problem that is mostly invisible: increasing levels of salt in groundwater due to its […]
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Minneapolis Area Synod embarks on watershed stewardship campaign

Eco exhibit featured in Northeast (...) The Mississippi Watershed Management Organization is hosting the exhibit, called “Climate, Energy, and Community: What We Can Do,” at its Stormwater Park and Learning Center this year.
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Abdikadir Mohamed Adan, aka "Macalin Xiito"

A Somali Leader Speaks Out for Clean Water

Video can be a powerful educational tool, and the MWMO is no stranger to producing videos about protecting water quality. But this year, our most interesting and impactful video project […]
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MWMO Master Water Stewards program class of 2016 graduates

Saluting Our First Class of Master Water Stewards

Last year, 14 people in our watershed volunteered for a program that would train them to be grassroots leaders for clean water. They spent the next several months studying hydrology, […]
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MWMO monitoring team staff inspecting a stormtunnel near downtown Minneapolis.

New ‘Story Map’ Reveals the Hidden World Beneath Our Streets

One of my personal interests as a water resources engineer is finding ways to communicate about the highly technical work that I love in a way that an everyday citizen […]
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Columbia Heights Library honored with Brownfield award

...The city also has a partnership agreement with the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization and features a landscape with storm water best management practices...
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Blind Somali math teacher adding to his legacy in Minneapolis

… Recently, Xiito took on a project from the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization to do community education for Twin Cities Somalis about the importance of clean water and protecting the […]
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Minnesota Brownfields honors five projects

Columbia Heights’ new library at 3939 Central Ave. NE won the small city impact award for creating a new 22,600-square-foot building that replaced a 60-year-old facility and a vacant, contaminated site once home to a Burger King.
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