This Week's Highlights:  Ameren clean energy plan, Stream Team members honored with national award, Osage River partnership to explore erosion, a James River kayak series, cropland conservation opportunity, new Soil and Water Director, microplastics in water, artic sea ice news,  severe drought in the west, and how to start a water wise garden

This Week's Highlights: Historic Yellowstone River flooding, a Kansas City artist to paddle and paint the Missouri River, basics of paddling safety and a water rescue, summer outdoor adventure calendar, big river catfishing, a smallmouth slam challenge, Great Lakes on the line, recovery of Ag nutrients, study detailing rivers jumping course, the need for safe water in the U.S., sustaining our fresh waters, and how rivers are formed.

This Week's Highlights: Free fishing days, a new MS degree in water at Missouri S&T, application open for Leopold Conservation Award, an Oregon group petitions for a trash TMDL, drought concerns in the west, the Healthy Drinking Water Affordability Act, birders in K.C. on the lookout for the brown booby, and the mapping of Roaring River spring