Welcome to River Network’s Great Lakes Drinking Water Advocates Database! This database features nonprofits and community organizations throughout the Great Lakes region working on drinking water issues. Search for advocates by state, issue expertise, programmatic focus, or contact name. We hope you will use this directory to make connections, build coalitions, and effectively partner with one another.

Great Lakes Regional Organizations

• Great Lakes Information Network (GLIN)
• Healing Our Waters (HOW) Great Lakes Coalition
• Freshwater Future
• Alliance for the Great Lakes
• Great Lakes PFAS Action Network (GLPAN)

If your organization is not yet included, please fill out this short survey to be added to the database and use it to update any information.

Join our Drinking Water Access Exchange to share resources and connect further with your peers.

Featured Organizations

Learn about these organizations’ successes in advancing clean drinking water for all through interviews with key staff.

Michigan League of Conservation Voters

For Love of Water (FLOW) (Michigan)

Freshwater Society
(Minnesota)

Lake Erie Waterkeeper
(Ohio)

Interview with Bentley Johnson, Federal Govt. Affairs Director

Interview with Liz Kirkwood, Executive Director

Interview with Carrie E. Jennings, Research & Policy Director

Interview with Sandra (Sandy) Bihn, Executive Director

National Wildlife Federation Great Lakes Regional Center

Interview with Mike Shriberg, Executive Director

Listen to the May 2024 Meet Your Network interview with Chrystopher Garzón, Water Policy Analyst at Alliance for the Great Lakes or read the transcribed interview here.

“It’s more than just policy research and analysis – it’s a lot of organizing. It’s a lot of relationship building and maintaining in order to move the needle.”