Governor Charlie Baker appointed NSRWA’s Executive Director Samantha Woods to sit on the state’s Water Resources Commission, which sits within the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. The Water Resources Commission was established in 1956 by the Massachusetts Legislature and is responsible for developing, coordinating, and overseeing the Commonwealth’s water policy and planning activities […]

In mid-November our Watershed Ecologist and MassBays South Shore Regional Coordinator, Sara Grady, Ph.D. presented a primer on the Clean Water Act’s NPDES MS4* permit to the Norwell Selectboard. Commonly called the “Stormwater Permit”, the permit requires communities to reduce stormwater pollution through a multi-pronged approach involving tasks like education, infrastructure maintenance and improvement, pollution […]

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, but rather, that which is most adaptable to change.” ~ Charles Darwin Floods, water quality, forest fires, droughts, extreme heat… these are just some of the natural disasters that are becoming more frequent, more dangerous and more costly as the climate changes. The climate may […]