Sweet Water Trust and Its Environmental Partners Get Boost to Improve Water Quality...

Sweet Water Trust and Its Environmental Partners Get Boost to Improve Water
Quality in the Milwaukee River Basin

MILWAUKEE, July 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Southeastern Wisconsin
Watersheds Trust (SWWT) - also known as the "Sweet Water Trust" - received a
major boost in its campaign to improve water quality in the Milwaukee River
Basin with a three year $1.9 million grant from the Joyce Foundation.

The grant supports seven state and local environmental groups and the Sweet
Water Trust to develop projects that will produce measurable improvements in
water quality and habitat starting with the Menomonee and Kinnickinnic River
Watersheds. This is a unique collaborative effort among nonprofits,
governments, universities and other entities working to use waters natural
boundaries, or watersheds, in making improvements in water quality and
habitat. The grant will help build the collaborative effort to establish
project priorities, support sound science and analyze complex policy issues,
all toward improving water quality and habitat and the health and economic
strength of communities in the Greater Milwaukee Watersheds.

"This investment provides enormous momentum toward making measurable
improvements in our water quality," stated Pat Marchese, Chairman of the Sweet
Water Trust Executive Steering Council. "The grant will enable the Trust and
its environmental partners to work collaboratively to build community support
for implementing cost effective water quality improvement projects in the
Greater Milwaukee Watersheds."

In addition to the Trust, the environmental partners receiving funding are:
1000 Friends of Wisconsin, Clean Wisconsin, Midwest Environmental Advocates,
Milwaukee RiverKeeper, River Alliance of Wisconsin, River Revitalization
Foundation, and Sixteenth Street Community Health Center.

This grant represents the Joyce Foundation's second substantial commitment to
watershed restoration. The first was a three year, $5 million effort in the
Maumee River basin in Northeast Indiana, Northwest Ohio, and Southeast
Michigan. This effort focused on urban stormwater pollution, agricultural
runoff, wetland protection and restoration, and contaminated sediment clean
up.

Sweet Water Trust is a collaborative effort to achieve healthy and sustainable
water resources throughout the Greater Milwaukee Watersheds.

Based in Chicago, the Joyce Foundation supports efforts to protect the Great
Lakes, to reduce poverty and violence in the region, and to ensure its
residents have good schools, decent jobs, a strong democracy, and a diverse
and thriving culture.

For a complete press release, visit. www.swwtwater.org

SOURCE Sweet Water Trust

Pat Marchese, Chairman, Executive Steering Council of Sweet Water Trust,
+1-262-242-9495, Cell: +1-414-687-2494, pmarchese1@wi.rr.com