Wisconsin may be home to 44,000 miles of rivers and 15,000 lakes, but conservationists in the state are too smart to take clean and plentiful water for granted. Citizens have formed more than 100 community-based river and watershed organizations and 600 to 700 lake associations to protect their precious liquid assets, and Lisa Goodman, the northern coordinator for local group assistance at the River Alliance of Wisconsin, gets to work with many of these groups of dedicated activists. In a week of diary entries for Grist, Goodman tells how the River Alliance is working to safeguard shorelines, plan for its upcoming 10th anniversary celebration, and help river lovers around the U.S. press for removal of destructive dams. And Goodman doesn't just work on water; she plays on water too -- paddling quietly up her local river on early morning excursions, learning to flyfish, and stumbling into rowdy after-work games of dead fish polo. Read up on these and other river exploits, only on the Grist Magazine website.