WWALS Watershed Coalition (WWALS) is Suwannee RIVERKEEPER® | A healthy watershed with clean, swimmable, fishable, drinkable water.

For recent news, see: posts.

WWALS water quality reports are here:
https://wwals.net/issues/testing/#results

Also follow that link for the underlying spreadsheet of water quality, sewage spills, and rainfall from Georgia and Florida sources for the Suwannee River Basin.

Water quality testing: read up on how the rivers are cleaner, get trained to test, or donate to our volunteer water quality testing program.

Issues: get involved in the advocacy of WWALS, for solar power where it belongs and rights to clean water, air, and land. We oppose sewage spills, trash, new mines (titanium or phosphate) and coal ash, fracking, new pipelines, and liquid natural gas (LNG) export, new toll roads, as well as corporate agriculture using too much water, too much fertilizer, and too many pesticides.

Okefenokee Swamp leaks into the Floridan Aquifer, by UGA Prof. Jaivime Evaristo and Todd Rasmussen, a WWALS Webinar, 2026-01-15.

Thanks to UGA Professors Jaivime Evaristo (isotope data) and Todd Rasmussen (water levels) for reviewing their two lines of evidence from their recent paper that the Okefenokee Swamp leaks through the underlying limestone into the Upper Floridan Aquifer. This also means that nearby water withdrawals draw more water down from the Swamp into the Aquifer. Zoom video:

https://youtu.be/NPe0D3YUA6M

Video: Okefenokee Swamp leaks into the Floridan Aquifer, peer-reviewed evidence, WWALS Webinar 2026-01-15

Their paper is more incentive to pass Georgia House Bill 561 to protect the Okefenokee Swamp from mining, at least on its east side. Georgians, please ask your statehouse delegation to pass HB 561. Floridians, please ask your Georgia friends and relatives to do the same. Here’s how to contact Georgia Statehouse members:

https://wwals.net/about/elected-officials/georgia-house/

Ask Florida statehouse and Water Districts to explain JAX treated wastewater into the Suwannee Basin or to stop it, 2026-01-02

Do you think a billion dollars to pipe treated wastewater from Jacksonville into the Suwannee Basin is a bad idea? Two Water Management Districts say this Water First North Florida project would replenish levels and flows in the Lower Santa Fe and Ichetucknee Rivers, including the Ichetucknee Headspring, by sending water into the Upper Floridan Aquifer through wetlands.

Please ask your statehouse delegation and Water Management District Board to explain why limiting water withdrawals would not be a better idea, or to stop this project. Also ask your county commissioners and members of Congress.

We don’t need the Suwannee River Basin to be downstream from Jacksonville. Sure, we’re poorer than Jacksonville, but we’re not their sacrifice zone.

How can this expensive and risky project be the best way to conserve levels and flows in these Outstanding Florida Waters, which are supposed to be worthy of special protection because of their natural attributes? How can risking the source of our drinking water be a good idea?

Why is piping treated JAX wastewater into the Suwannee River Basin, better than limiting water withdrawals? Ask FL statehouse and WMD boards

Here’s how to find your legislators:

https://pluralpolicy.com/find-your-legislator/

More questions and contacts here.

Right to Clean and Healthy Waters

Due to legal hurdles imposed by the Florida legislature, the organizing committee has stopped collecting signatures, instead regrouping to plan for the 2028 ballot. See floridarighttocleanwater.org.

www.floridarighttocleanwater.org/

Outings: Join us on our frequent paddle outings and cleanups, at least one a month.

Join WWALS: Outings are free once you become a WWALS member. Also, members get a sticker that looks just like the Suwannee Riverkeeper logo; that’s the only way to get them.

Suwannee Riverkeeper®, since December 2016, is a staff position and a project of WWALS as the member of the WATERKEEPER® Alliance for the Suwannee River Basin. See our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).

WWALS Vision: A healthy watershed with clean, swimmable, fishable, drinkable water.

FAQ, Board, Staff, Committees, News and PR

WWALS Mission: WWALS Watershed Coalition (WWALS), established June 2012, is an IRS 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit charity that advocates for conservation and stewardship of the surface waters and groundwater of the Suwannee River Basin and Estuary, in south Georgia and north Florida, among them the Withlacoochee, Willacoochee, Alapaha, Little, Santa Fe, and Suwannee River watersheds, through education, awareness, environmental monitoring, and citizen activities.. That’s throughout the entire 10,000 square miles of the Basin and Estuary in Georgia and Florida, from the Okefenokee Swamp to the Gulf of Mexico.

WWALS Webinars is a monthly series of webinars via zoom about topics of interest to the Suwannee River Basin and the work of WWALS Watershed Coalition, Inc. (WWALS) and Suwannee Riverkeeper.

They are usually on the second or third Thursday of the month, from noon to 1PM. After a brief introduction, the speaker has about 45 minutes, with the remaining time for questions and answers and discussion.

If you miss one, you can see it later on YouTube:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKwQ5xfKf-QxWRGrV9iExlyXQIVnzOtPX&si=0Atnjwrm_ikyV-sh

Report: any issue you see affecting water in the Suwannee River Basin.

Water Trails: we organize three water trails, with web pages, interactive online maps, z-fold brochures, road signs, and at-water signs with details of what to expect upstream and down, covering the entire 10,000-square-mile Suwannee River Basin in Georgia and Florida.

How far from one Boat Ramp to the next landing? WWALS Water Trails.
Alapaha River Water Trail (ARWT)
Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail (WLRWT)
The WWALS map of the Suwannee River Water Trail (SRWT) runs from the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia to the Gulf of Mexico, including the Santa Fe, Ichetucknee, and New Rivers. Florida’s Suwannee River Wilderness Trail from White Springs to the Gulf existed before WWALS, and we constantly draw on its materials, in communication with its organizers. The WWALS Suwannee River Water Trail materials go farther upstream and draw on more sources downstream all the way to the Gulf.
An online map of All public landings and boat ramps in the Suwannee River Basin and Estuary.