Missouri American Water Announces Six Winners of Funding from Company’s Environmental Grants Program
May 29 2018 - 11:25AM
Business Wire
Individual projects across the state address
watershed protection, environmentalism
Missouri American Water announces six watershed-related projects
will receive funding from the company’s annual Environmental Grant
Program.
These grants are part of American Water’s national Environmental
Grant Program, which began in 2005. The grants support innovative,
community-based environmental projects that improve, restore and/or
protect watersheds and community water supplies through
partnerships.
The 2018 grant recipients are:
- Missouri Stream Team/Paddle Mo –
Located in Shelbyville, this award will support Stream Teams
United’s Paddle Mo event, in which paddlers come together to
celebrate the final 100 miles of the Missouri River as it joins the
Mississippi River.
- Wildcat Glades Friends Group – This
group from Joplin manages the Shoal Creek Water Festival 2018,
which brings together people from four states to learn about water
quality and conservation through hands-on activities and
educational booths.
- Forest ReLeaf of Missouri – This St.
Louis group seeks to enhance the environmental benefits of land it
manages by planting a pollinator garden. This garden will educate
visitors, promote native plants and support native bee and
butterfly populations.
- Great Rivers Habitat Alliance – This
St. Louis group will host a volunteer stewardship day in the
Meramec Watershed near Arnold to remove debris from multiple floods
in 2016 and 2017.
- Missouri River Relief – This
Columbia-based group will lead a community-based cleanup of trash
from the shores of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers in St.
Charles and St. Louis counties.
- St. Joseph Youth Alliance – This
group’s Project WET! will bring together participating youth to
explore and investigate aquatic ecosystems by taking water samples
for testing, picking up trash from streams and producing
informational literature about the importance of clean
watersheds.
“Great Rivers Habitat Alliance and the Open Space Council both
commend Missouri American Water for their commitment to park
restoration along the Meramec River,” said David Stokes, Executive
Director of the Great Rivers Habitat Alliance, one of the
Environmental Grant recipients. “By supporting our park restoration
efforts, Missouri American Water is showing its commitment to clean
water, public parks, and nature-based flood control efforts. This
grant will allow us to make great progress in Robert Winter Park,
and we thank Missouri American for their support of both
organizations.”
Missouri American Water
Missouri American Water, a subsidiary of American Water (NYSE:
AWK), is the largest investor-owned water utility in the state,
providing high-quality and reliable water and/or wastewater
services to approximately 1.5 million people.
With a history dating back to 1886, American Water is the
largest and most geographically diverse U.S. publicly traded water
and wastewater utility company. The company employs more than 6,900
dedicated professionals who provide regulated and market-based
drinking water, wastewater and other related services to an
estimated 15 million people in 46 states and Ontario, Canada.
American Water provides safe, clean, affordable and reliable water
services to our customers to make sure we keep their lives flowing.
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