UW-Madison and Extension Collaborate on Wisconsin's Water Quality

Nearly 100 people packed a room at the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus recently, overlooking the world’s best-studied lake, Lake Mendota. They were there to think about and to talk about water. Not just any water, but Wisconsin’s water, in a year that Gov. Tony Evers has declared the Year of Clean Drinking Water and also at a time that UW-Madison and the recently reintegrated Division of Extension are looking to forge new partnerships and strengthen existing ones. It was the second in a series of events designed to be “intentional about creating exactly the right conditions to encourage