Causes: Environment, Water, Water Resources, Wetlands Conservation & Management

Mission: The mission of the clean lakes alliance (cla) is to bring together and lead a community of people, businesses, organizations, and government agencies dedicated to improving and protecting water quality in the yahara river watershed and illustrate the progress made.

Programs: Outreach and education are a vital part of programming in order to achieve cla's vision that everyone realizes that the lakes are the center of our community. We have diverse programs to engage diverse groups of people in our lake efforts. The programs are designed to educate both directly and indirectly. The idea is that issue-literacy leads to ownership, ownership leads to caring, and caring leads to progress. Cla's outreach and education programs include the clean lakes festival, yahara lakes 101, lake ecology education and world water week, and they help the community develop awareness of the yahara lakes, thereby empowering them to advocate for and help make progress towards improving the quality of our waters.

watershed programming is an essential part of cla, helping to achieve our goal of 50% phosphorus reduction by 2025.The programs include an economic impact study, yahara pride farms management services, land acquisition and monitoring, and they provide the tools to help reduce phosphorus runoff in the yahara river watershed through multiple initiatives, both urban and rural. On the ground, these programs create the framework to improve the quality of our waters.