Thanks for reading with us — the Clean Water Book Club will return in 2024!
If you’ve wanted a deeper understanding of Iowa’s water issues - this book club is for you!
This year we launched our first ever Clean Water Book Club, with books from two brilliant Iowa authors .
Check out the books we read to the right, and stay tuned for more to come in the new year. In the meantime consider joining us with Nitrate Watch in our water testing program.
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Our vision: We'd love to see CCI Clean Water Book Clubs pop up all over the state! Then we’ll join together for an author call on Zoom at the end of each month.
We're hoping this is a good excuse to gather, an enjoyable way deepen our understanding of one of the most pressing issues in our state, and a chance to build connection and community.
True to CCI style - we’re not ones to just talk about things. Along with our authors, we’ve got some great ways to make a splash on this critical issue.
AUGUST BOOK
A big thank you to over 125 of you who helped us kick off our book club in a big way! Though our the book club for this book is over, we’d love to hear what you think if you give this a read. Click here to order WATER, a novel from award-winning author Jennifer Wilson.
WATER is the fictional story of Freja Folsom, a reporter in Des Moines who wants nothing to do with the environmental story she’s been assigned. But a man who illegally dropped a well into the city’s aquifer leads Freja to the passionate showdown between farmers, government workers, worried citizens, and the sexy head of the Water Works utility. Suddenly, the poisoned water of Iowa seems like the story that might save Freja’s life — and revive the spirit of the state she loves before it gives up and becomes Mississippi. Okay, so maybe it’s not that fictional.
SEPTEMBER BOOK
THE SWINE REPUBLIC
Interested in the truth about Iowa and the Midwest’s water quality? You won’t get it from Iowa’s agricultural and political leaders. But Chris Jones delivers. He takes a long hard look at the science, politics, culture, and economics of Iowa agriculture and the state’s degraded waters and connects the dots for everyone who wonders why progress toward improvement is so maddeningly slow in Iowa and the rest of the farmed Midwest.