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	<img alt="" src="{filedir_5}Bill-Deutsch.jpg" style="float: left; width: 300px; height: 279px; " />Professor Bill Deutsch, who teaches Au Sable&#39;s <a href="/courses/course_information/watershed_stewardship/">Watershed Stewardship</a> course, recently won the Alabama Water Conservationist of the Year Award from the Alabama Wildlife Federation&nbsp;for his work with Alabama Water Watch. &nbsp;He was honored on August 5th at the Governor&#39;s Conservation Achievement Award ceremony.</p>
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	<a href="http://www.alabamawaterwatch.org/">Alabama Water Watch</a>&nbsp;(AWW) uses community-based methods for monitoring watershed health, teaching citizen groups scientific testing methods for monitoring water quality and overall watershed health that can be used for local and State-level decision-making to improve water quality, local ecosystems, and public health.</p>
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	In addition to establishing Alabama Water Watch through Auburn University in 1992, Dr. Deutsch also leads a world-wide network of citizen watershed groups through <a href="http://www.globalwaterwatch.org/">Global Water Watch</a> (GWW), traveling to GWW&#39;s in-country offices in the Philippines, Mexico, Thailand, Brazil, and Ecuador to conduct trainings.</p>
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	Congratulations Bill!</p>
