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It doesn’t require a hero to do something heroic! There is great merit even in small acts of water-mindfulness — because of the acts themselves and because of the kind of people it makes us. —H2O IQ editor

Category: People Stories

Update: Remember the Young Man With a Plan to Rid Oceans of Plastic?
May 4, 2018

Update: Remember the Young Man With a Plan to Rid Oceans of Plastic?

His massive plan is scheduled to launch this summer Do you remember the teenager who six years ago invented a...

Can a Wetland Help a Farm? Ask These Family Farmers
May 3, 2018

Can a Wetland Help a Farm? Ask These Family Farmers

The Mackinaw River on Franklin Demonstration Farm in central Illinois. Photo © Cristina Rutter for The Nature Conservancy In the...

Flint Activist LeeAnne Walters Wins Major Environmental Prize
April 28, 2018

Flint Activist LeeAnne Walters Wins Major Environmental Prize

LeeAnne Walters, a recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize, was key in exposing the crisis of lead-laced water in Flint,...

Young woman from Rigolet — stories of protecting land and water
April 17, 2018

Young woman from Rigolet — stories of protecting land and water

Photo: Emily Wolfrey with some of the youth and elders who gathered to talk about their stories as land and...

Canadian teen tells UN to ‘warrior up,’ give water same protections as people
March 23, 2018

Canadian teen tells UN to ‘warrior up,’ give water same protections as people

Canadian water activist Autumn Peltier, a 13-year-old from Manitoulin Island, addresses the UN General Assembly on world water day. Her...

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