This Week's News: Missouri's lake water testing program cuts, how plastic pellets are polluting beaches and waterways, funds for a Mississippi River Invasive Species Consortium, a representative's record breaking run, reward being offered for southern Missouri elk poacher, a grant for Mississippi River field trips, the USDA details federal farm aid package, Indigenous land trust buys acreage along Klamath River, a Missouri teen makes tournament fishing history, how Missouri continues to fight CWD, upcoming prescribed burn workshops, and learn how to identify trees with MDC.

This Week's News:  New database tracks sediment across the Mississippi River Basin, hazardous materials stored in a rural Missouri town, volunteers take up monitoring water quality, the Ozark Rivers Solid Waste Management District recognizes outstanding individuals, Missouri River repairs continue at Cora Island, water system upgrades in a southern Missouri town, alarm about a proposed federal amendment, guidance for modernizing stream crossings, a public waterways rule clarifies public access, successful passage of the Wetlands Conservation and Access Improvement Act, students in Minnesota reel in an alligator gar, staffing loss at USFWS, a bridge implosion on the Mississippi River, walleye movement studied on the Missouri, hundreds of thousands of carp removed from Kansas River, Bangladesh bans catching juvenile species of hilsa fish, and Missouri River Relief seeks donations for trash pick-up during anniversary year

This Week's News: U.S. House advances PERMIT Act, states work to end secrecy over water use by data centers, a northern Missouri lake project receives approval of dam and spillway plans, successful stocking of scaleshell mussels on the Osage River, a land purchase to protect the Grotto Sculpin, a North Dakota town works to respond to sandbar migration on the Missouri River, a look at the Arkansas River as it leaves Colorado, an advocate fights to clean up the polluted Tijuana River, a missing fisherman found in the Ozarks, the effect of drought on cattle counties, and campaigning for a clean Mississippi River

This Week's News:  Wetlands protect migratory birds, concerns with proposed WOTUS Rule, the EPA embraces PFAS pesticides, cities seeing PFAS in drinking water, a federal rule seeks rollback of protection for imperiled species, a river corridor consideration in Minnesota, how a family fought to save the Klamath River, airplane surveys for new mining aspects in Missouri, Congress extends the Farm Bill, Missouri to lose its lake monitoring program, a Missouri college replaces Bradford Pear trees with native trees, a grant to evaluate wastewater system, and see eagles in Missouri with MDC Eagle Days

This Week's News:  Counting ducks in Missouri with drones and Ai, students clean up Fassnight Creek in Springfield, Missouri's winter trout season underway, a conceptual plan survey for Lake of the Ozarks State Park, watershed discussions for tackling bacteria in Columbia's urban streams, how Iowa farmers band together for water quality practices, a new form of wildlife tourism in Montana views bats, a game changing water proposal in Arizona, an environmental impact statement for proposed sand and gravel mine on the Mississippi River, a mom and her children paddle down the Mississippi, join a post-Thanksgiving hike, and new study on how rivers can be carbon sources or sinks

This Week's News: Bird flu outbreak confirmed in Missouri, an agreement to protect bat habitat at northern Missouri reservoir, building a cleaner, greener St. Louis through the River des Peres Trash Bash, a train derails over Turkey Creek in Joplin, concern that new data centers are increasing water demand in KC and beyond, Kansas biologists restore native mussels, sewage could be dumped into Massachusetts river, arsenic levels elevated, and concern about corrosive runoff in Louisiana, a group collects 900 lbs of trash in Delaware River basin and gain insight on plastic pollution, volunteers in California plant natives, upper basin planning for the Colorado River, a rare scientific look at the effects of storms, and how an Army veteran has explored Missouri streams through packrafting

This Week's News: A new eco-friendly way to destroy forever chemicals, 100 years of river data, a stormwater weapon in St. Louis, Waterkeeper Alliance files FOIA on EPA regarding PFAS, potential federal firings affect Missouri research center, a computer model shows rising threats of flooding in the lower Mississippi, waterfowl hunting will be limited at Eagle Bluffs CA this year due to pump failure, salmon bouncing back on the Klamath River thanks to dam removal, river watchdogs track chemical waste in Pennsylvania, how New Hampshire is tackling road salt issues, city of Bull Shoals needs to address pollution of lake in Arkansas, a bridge replacement on the St. Francis and water quality improvements for Unionville, how ghost nets affect ocean life, and how water salinity affects farmer in Iraq

This Week's News: Arkansas enacts emergency trout rules following hatchery collapse, fun day for Jefferson City students with Missouri River Relief, Mizzou archaeologists discover ancient Roman water basin, concern about federal sale of thousands of acres in Utah, reciprocal fishing and hunting permits in place for several states, a Mississippi State University partnership with tech companies to help farmers conserve water, declining mallard ducks in the delta, water main breaks in Missouri, discover eight types of frogs on the Mississippi River, and Missouri prepares to update ammonia water quality requirements

This Week's News: Blue River Cleanup Grant and Missouri River murals in Kansas City, a look at water supply in southwest Missouri, locals in Arkansas clash over swimming spot, the White River contaminated with sewage at Bull Shoals, Arkansas, Congress declares northwest public land management plans null and void, Louisiana pulls plug on a coastal project, how paying farmers is working for Colorado River conservation, a mom and her kids paddle down the Mississippi, Table Rock Lake remains open despite government shutdown, an introduction to fly tying workshop Oct. 17 in St. Louis area, and new Understanding Rivers resource from National Geographic

This Week's News:  Fishing tournament announced for Table Rock Lake, Missouri's blue spring, moss animals in Missouri, upper Missouri River sandbar management, note on discolored upper Missouri River water, a bicycle bridge across Arizona's Salt River, Mississippi river monsters, a Missouri River rescue, the EPA looks to halt additional wastewater regulations for livestock industries,  an opportunity to learn to fish in Washington, MO, plus prescribed fire for deer management