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Question and answer session with Lisa Weidemann, a community affairs specialist with the MPCA, about her work with the agency.

Application forms and instructions for applying for wastewater permits.

Licensing and certification requirements for SSTS businesses and professionals.

The Keep It Clean campaign, a 2023 Minnesota law, and many partners working together are adding up to less garbage and waste left behind on frozen lakes.

When food spoils or is thrown away before we eat it, the resources that went into creating the food are wasted.

Groundwater is the source of drinking water for about 75% of all Minnesotans and provides almost all of the water used to irrigate crops. Its purity and availability is critical to the health of the state.

Profile of Karl Scheuer, a volunteer with the MPCA's Volunteer Water Monitoring Program

Under the federal Clean Water Act, states must designate beneficial uses for all waters and develop water quality standards to protect each use.

For Katy Backes Kozhimannil, water is intrinsically tied to her life’s work. As a professor of public health at the University of Minnesota with a focus on rural communities, she has made it her life…

We Are Water MN travels to Chisago County, where Dawn White has served as an educator and policy team member focused on preserving waters.

Sustained efforts by cities and water management organizations have restored water quality in two Dakota County lakes.

Guidance and recommendations for local officials dealing with public health issues related to blue-green algae.

We Are Water MN travels to Leech Lake, where Raining White works to protect and restore manoomin, or wild rice.

MPCA's compliance and enforcement program tracks how well wastewater treatment facilities are complying with their permits and takes enforcement actions when necessary.

Minnesota rules identify 16 standing beneficial uses for which waste generators or end users can simply follow the applicable rules without contacting the MPCA.

Under the new EPR program, Minnesota is phasing out all product packaging sold in our state that is not refillable, reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2032.

Advising farmers about seeds, fertilizers, and other decisions, crop consultants have potential to promote sustainable practices to benefit water and soil health, and impact climate change.

Eight cities will receive grants to create plans that will protect homes and businesses from flooding and other climate impacts

MPCA established a network of long-term biological monitoring stations that represent a variety of stream types in their most natural condition.

The Minnesota Nutrient Reduction Strategy (NRS) compiles the latest science, research, and data and recommends the most effective strategies to reduce nutrients in our waters from both point and nonpoint sources.