Welcome to the Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition’s redesigned website!
Washington Watch
Keep up with the latest Great Lakes news coming out of Washington, D.C., and learn how it could impact our region.
Coalition Opposes Trump Move to Weaken Clean Water Protections
The coalition warned that a proposed rule issued by the Trump Administration would weaken clean water protection efforts in the Great Lakes region.
Action Alert: Urge Representatives to Sign on to Urge Administration Action on Algal Outbreaks
U.S. Representatives drafted a letter to the Office of Management and Budget requesting funding for programs that address harmful algal blooms.
Action Alert: Contact House Members to Support Great Lakes Restoration Funding
House Members are circulating a letter to the Office of Management and Budget to request $300 million for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative in FY20.
IN YOUR STATE
Learn how Great Lakes restoration is benefiting your state, as well as what work is left to do.
ISSUES
Learn about the Great Lakes issues we work on and the manageable solutions we support.
Protecting Drinking Water
The Great Lakes provide drinking water for more than 30 million people in the region, yet the pipes and other infrastructure delivering and treating our water is in dire need of repair.
Restoring Habitat
The Great Lakes provide a home for fish, wildlife, migratory birds, and the people of the region. Over the years, development degraded or displaced key habitat for fish and wildlife.
Fighting Invasive Species
Invasive species have fundamentally altered the Great Lakes ecosystem. Millions of dollars are spent each year to control them and reduce their spread.
Cleaning Up Toxic Pollution
More than 40 sites around the Great Lakes have been identified as toxic hot spots to be cleaned up. And new pollutants are still being discovered.
Reducing Polluted Runoff
Each year, polluted runoff from farms flows into the Great Lakes feeding toxic algae outbreaks which poison drinking water, close beaches, and hurt tourism.
OUR MEMBERS
Since 2004, the Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition has been harnessing the collective power of more than 150 groups representing millions of people, whose common goal is to restore and protect the Great Lakes.
To educate, advance policy, and provide solutions to the pressing water, energy and climate issues facing our region, nation and planet.
To reducing the health risks and environmental impacts of pesticides by promoting safer alternatives.
To conserve, restore, and promote the sustainable use and enjoyment of our natural resources, including soil, air, woods, waters, and wildlife.
Preserving our past. Protecting our future.
Connects, equips and mobilizes people and organizations to care for land and water in their communities.
We collaborate with communities to solve complex environmental challenges across the Midwest.
At the core of all of our work is a goal to teach and instill a conservation ethic in the hearts of people across Michigan and beyond and to make our communities better places to live, work and enjoy.
Protecting the places we love and promoting core environmental values, such as clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and clean energy to power our lives.
To enhance the ability to collect, deliver, and use Great Lakes information.
To preserve, protect and restore the Indiana dunes and all natural resources in Northwest Indiana’s Lake Michigan Watershed for an enhanced quality of life.
Uniting all Americans to ensure wildlife thrive in a rapidly changing world.
To safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.
To spark compassion, curiosity and conservation for the aquatic animal world.
Ensuring the healthy future of our Great Lakes waters.
Filling the skies with waterfowl today, tomorrow and forever.
Envisioning an ever improving quality of life for people, plants and animals in southeast Michigan and southwest Ontario.
To protect the Great Lakes for today and tomorrow.
Providing unique sailing experiences to the public and for educational voyages.
Inspiring our community to be actively engaged in the conservation of wildlife and our natural environment.
To conserve, protect and restore North America's coldwater fisheries and their watersheds.
Connecting people. Saving rivers.
To encourage and promote sound fisheries management in Lake Erie; support the charter boat industry; and create a better working relationship between the association, law enforcement agencies, politicians, and the sport fishing public.
To save the places people need and love by strengthening land conservation across America.
To restore, protect, and enhance the Rouge River watershed through stewardship, education, and collaboration.
We fly to save the earth.
To promote the conservation, sound management, and sustainable use of Indiana's wildlife and wildlife habitat through education, advocacy, and action.
Connecting birds and people for the benefit of both through conservation, education, and research efforts in the state of Michigan.
Nonpartisan political organization in Michigan protecting your land, air, and water.
We make conservation work for America by creating solutions that make environmental and economic sense.
Conserving, protecting and restoring our country's coldwater fisheries and their watersheds.
Where birds thrive, people prosper.
The Midwest’s leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and eco-business innovation organization, and among the nation’s leaders.
To unite a diverse group of stakeholders in a collaborative effort to protect, restore and foster stewardship of the St. Joseph River Watershed as a critical component of the Great Lakes Basin.
Illinois’ advocate for clean water and healthy rivers.
We mobilize people to solve environmental issues in areas of greatest inequity.
To protect healthy rivers, restore damaged rivers and conserve clean water for people and nature.
A scientific organization made up of researchers studying the Laurentian Great Lakes, other large lakes of the world, and their watersheds, as well as those with an interest in such research.