Salmon Falls Watershed Collaborative Awarded Water Prize

The Clean Water America Alliance recently announced that six “water champions,” including the Salmon Falls Watershed Collaborative of Maine and New Hampshire, were winners of the 2012 U.S. Water Prize for watershed-based approaches toward water sustainability.

The selection of the Salmon Falls Watershed Collaborative for the U.S. Water Prize is designed to highlight the importance of inter-jurisdictional partnerships to protect and sustain drinking water supplies. This inter-state collaborative between Maine and New Hampshire unites local, state, and federal partners to protect forests and reduce stormwater pollution from anticipated development.

The U.S. Water Prize winners will be honored in a special ceremony on Monday, 23 April, at the Washington Marriott Hotel in Washington, D.C.  National water and environmental leaders will attend the celebration, and each recipient will receive a handcrafted, water-inspired, ceramic art work commissioned from internationally acclaimed potter Miranda Thomas.

Media report:

Foster's Daily Democrat: Somersworth honored for clean drinking water (29 FEB 12)

Background information:

Salmon Falls Watershed Collaborative

Clean Water America Alliance