The League of Women Voters of the Helena Area invites you to an important public meeting on Monday, March 23, 5:30 pm at Lewis & Clark Library to hear from two local speakers on the challenges facing Montana and community water supplies, and what citizens can do to protect our water.

Upper Missouri Waterkeeper Director, Guy Alsentzer, will present Montana Water at a Crossroads, an update on the rapidly shifting legal and policy landscape affecting water in the Upper Missouri Basin and how to protect your right to fishable, swimmable, drinkable water.  

https://www.uppermissouriwaterkeeper.org/

Micah Fields, writer, educator and owner of Pretty Good Outfitters, will present Guiding for Conservation, the fight to protect public land access, clean water, and science-based wildlife management.

https://www.prettygoodoutfittersmt.com/

Clean water is a valuable Montana resource; it sustains our economy and our way of life.  Climate change has intensified in the last few years and the change for our state is expected to result in more extreme precipitation events, flooding, more severe droughts, dangerous heat domes, and increases in the number and intensity of wild fires.  Because of these expected changes, wise management of water resources and stream flows will be necessary for meeting the water needs for wildlife and future generations.

Clean water standards that were designed to prevent water pollution are being rolled back. Loss of these controls imperils our state as well as our city clean water resources and impacts threatened and endangered species. Protecting water quality from polluters and using scientifically proven methods for measuring contaminants in our streams, rivers and lakes will be of prime importance.