Watershed Stewards Academy

The Watershed Stewards Academy equips and supports community leaders to recognize and address local pollution problems in their nearby streams and rivers. WSA provides community leaders with the tools and resources they need to bring solutions to these problems, restoring their local waterways and the communities they affect. Participants become Master Watershed Stewards when they complete the courseworkand an approved capstone project.
Each repair by each steward adds up in each and every community, with a “flood” of stewards throughout our local watersheds empowered to transform stormwater to clean water; pollution to solution; and concerned resident to master steward.
Spring 2022 Applications are now open!
Click here for the online application
Watershed Stewards Academy is funded by the District Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE), Campbell Foundation, the University of Maryland, and the National Science Foundation.
Spring 2022
Spring 2022 applications open on Feb 22, 2022.
Spring class dates April 12, 2022- June 7, 2022 , and are on select Tuesday evenings and Saturdays
Stay in the know about when the next session starts! Click here to signup for the Anacostia Watershed Society's weekly email newsletter.
Do you have some questions before you apply? Would you like more information on becoming a Master Steward? Please click here to fill out the WSA Interest Form, and we will contact you with more information.
