Sharing a Vision of Safe and Clean Waters
Our Mission
The Headwaters to the Ohio Water Network connects diverse water stakeholders to develop and pursue a shared vision and attract increased resources for safe and clean water.
Welcome to the Headwaters to the Ohio Water Network (H2O), a coalition of organizations working to improve water quality and access in the Upper Ohio River Basin. We promote sustainable water management practices and ensure that everyone in the region has access to clean, safe, and affordable water. With a focus on collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and community engagement, we are working to address the key water-related challenges facing our region, from climate change and stormwater runoff to agricultural practices and public awareness. Join us in our efforts to protect and preserve our most vital natural resource - water.
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Lead in Blue Hole Creek: MWA Presses DEP for Enforceable Action
Blue Hole Creek is one of those places people in the Laurel Highlands hand down to their kids: a cold, clear swimming hole tucked into…
Stream Restoration Happens in the Woods. You Feel It at Home.
By John Detisch, H2O Water Network We have all heard some version of this story. Someone calls the township shed to thank the crew for…
Pennsylvania Fines Shell $15 Million for Air Pollution at Beaver County Plastics Plant
Pennsylvania has hit Shell with a $15 million penalty for air pollution violations at its Monaca ethane cracker on the Ohio River, one of the…
Washington Wants States to Lead on Disaster Recovery. West Virginia Is Not Ready.
The federal government is moving to hand states the lead role in disaster recovery. New reporting from Mountain State Spotlight lays out an uncomfortable truth:…
Report: More Than Half of Tested Pennsylvania Waterways Had Unsafe Bacteria Levels
A new statewide report card asks a simple question: are Pennsylvania’s rivers and lakes safe for swimming? For more than half of the places tested,…
Twenty-Five Years On, the Flight 93 Memorial Is Also a Mine Drainage Success Story
The field in Somerset County where Flight 93 came down twenty-five years ago is hallowed ground. It is also reclaimed strip mine land, and the…
Second Round of Flash Flooding Hits Eastern Ohio and West Virginia, Watch Continues Into the Weekend
For the second time in eleven days, flash flooding tore through parts of the Upper Ohio basin, and the rain is not finished. A flood…
Three Rivers Waterkeeper Packs September With Pollution-Spotting Trainings
If your volunteers have ever floated past something on the river and wondered whether it was worth reporting, Three Rivers Waterkeeper is spending September teaching…
While Renewables Languish, Pennsylvania Pays Millions to Coal Waste Companies
New reporting digs into a question that sits close to home for every group working below a culm pile: Pennsylvania sends hundreds of millions of…
EPA Opens $10.8 Million for Water Workforce Training Programs
Every watershed group knows the story: the local water plant operator is a few years from retirement and nobody is lined up to replace them.…
Good News on the Mon: A New Study Shows the Mine Drainage Is Easing
For generations, acid mine drainage has been the defining wound of the Monongahela. A new study using more than a decade of independent monitoring data…
Never Paddled Before? A Pittsburgh Sojourn on September 26 Is Built for You
Kayaks and Kamraderie brings first-time paddlers onto the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh on September 26, with lunch aboard a mobile programming barge. A perfect on-ramp for future watershed volunteers.
