Wings2Water
Reduce Iowa’s Nutrient Runoff and Flood Impacts, Restore Local Water Quality, and Eliminate the Dead Zone.
Our Mission
Our mission is to reduce nutrient pollution runoff and flood impacts, restore water quality, and eliminate the Dead Zone.
Wings2Water, a Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, began as a private initiative of the Eastern Iowa Airport. We focus on raising awareness about the issue of water quality and financially supporting projects that help improve water quality or education about the issue. Our overall mission is to reduce pollution runoff and flood impacts, restore water quality, and help eliminate the Dead Zone in the Gulf. We have positioned our organization to both educate others and lead efforts to improve water quality locally and nationally.
We invite airport travelers to be “impact investors” by donating online or rounding up their purchases at the airport. Wings2Water receives 100% of the round-up donations for water quality. No money is exchanged with the Eastern Iowa Airport or any other airport. We also solicit corporate donors to increase our impact.
Clean water and healthy ecosystems benefit all sectors of our lives, from the economy to our health to recreation and leisure.
Your small change, combined with others, can make a big difference!
We Educate
travelers, visitors, and more about water quality
We Engage
with the community to raise awareness
We Crowd-Fund
through round-it-up programs at the Eastern lowa Airport
We Invest
in water quality improvement, restoration, and education projects
The reality is that our water quality is declining.
But this is a solvable problem, and we can lead the way!
Flooding, runoff and ground and surface water pollution are local problems with national consequences. What we do locally affects our own families, businesses, and communities, but it also carries impacts all the way to The Gulf, contributing to the Gulf Dead Zone, which damages fisheries, harms local economies, and drives up the cost of seafood. Wings2Water seeks to be a good steward of our local environment and in the process, help the environment, residents, and economies of our neighbors downstream.