mississippi river collaborative

​Mississippi River Collaborative

An initiative of The McKnight Foundation, The Mississippi River Collaborative is a partnership of environmental organizations and legal centers from states bordering the Mississippi River as well as regional and national groups working on issues affecting the Mississippi River and its tributaries. The Collaborative harnesses the resources and expertise of its diverse organizations to reduce pollution entering the Mississippi River as well as the Gulf of Mexico.

The Collaborative works cooperatively within the Mississippi River Basin by strategically focusing on state and regional water quality protection in the Mississippi River Basin, and increasing the organizational, legal, and technical capacity of participating groups to meet existing challenges and to effectively implement new initiatives of the Collaborative.

Specifically, the Collaborative works to reduce nutrient pollution in the Mississippi River and Northern Gulf of Mexico; increase the focus of Collaborative members on agricultural sources of nutrient pollution; ensure that the policy of antidegradation is implemented in the water quality permitting process in each of the Basin states; build the capacity of Collaborative participants to advocate for no discharge systems; and extend the impact of the Collaborative through improved communications with the press and the public.