Memorial Day 2025 @ 48 Dangerously Polluted Iowa Public Beaches

To Call for the End of

Iowa’s #NoSwimEra

WE NEED YOU TO SHARE YOUR STORY.

We are inviting volunteers to visit one of the 48 selected Iowa lakes from our Lake List (see below), and take photos and videos of what you see. We invite you to share those photos, videos and your personal narrative of your relationship with Iowa’s waters and how use of those waters has changed over time.

Click the button below to see a detailed volunteer guide.

Please RSVP through our Upcoming Events page.

“What we’re doing with this project is acquainting people again with each other and with others about where they have seen access to this public resource — clean water — be diminished by those who are stealing our wealth and polluting our waters.” 

-Jim Larew, Driftless Water Defenders