Updates from the Georgia Water Coalition

Now Hiring: Fundraising Sustainability Consultant

December 9, 2025

Introduction The Georgia Water Coalition (GWC) is seeking proposals from qualified Financial Sustainability Consultants to help expand and strengthen the Coalition’s fundraising program. The consultant will support GWC’s long-term financial sustainability by identifying new funding opportunities, developing funder relationships, preparing letters of inquiry (LOIs) and grant proposals, and exploring options for establishing a future endowment […]

Volunteers Needed: Join Our Okefenokee Social Media Campaign

December 2, 2025

As part of our efforts to promote legislation to protect the Okefenokee Swamp, the Georgia Water Coalition is planning a social media campaign that we’ll launch during the 2026 Legislative Session. The campaign is called “40 Days For The Okefenokee” or, in hashtag terms, #40days4oke. Here’s the premise: Every day that the legislature is in […]

Groups urge state not to ignore water challenges posed by data centers and crypto mining

August 21, 2025

Suspension of key planning process raises red flags Atlanta, Georgia –The Georgia Water Coalition (GWC), a coalition of more than 260 conservation organizations, farmers, homeowners and lake associations, business owners, sportsmen’s clubs, professional associations, and religious groups that care about safeguarding Georgia’s water resources, has spent more than 20 years advocating for smart water management […]

Groundwater in Georgia: Out of Sight but Frequently Not Out of Mind

September 23, 2024

Article by Gordon Rogers Groundwater issues are perhaps the most misunderstood, certainly the least addressed in the popular press, yet arguably some of the most important water issues in Georgia. This is partly because we ‘can’t see it’ until it pops up as a spring, but also partly because groundwater resources in Georgia are highly […]

Member Spotlight – Satilla Riverkeeper fights proposed landfill in Brantley County

September 2, 2020

A group of private investors, Brantley County Development Partners, LLC is trying to build a solid waste handling facility near the Satilla River in Brantley County. The proposed 463-acre site is covered in wetlands, and the surrounding areas are prone to flooding. The proposed site backs up to a residential neighborhood and sits between two […]

Save the Okefenokee Swamp

June 5, 2020

SAVE THE SWAMP – GWC works to protect the Okefenokee Swamp from mining. In recent months, concerned citizens have given the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers close to 60,000 reasons to deny Twin Pines Minerals, LLC (Twin Pines) rights to dig for titanium on portions of a 12,000-acre site near the Okefenokee Swamp and adjacent […]