Love capturing the beauty of nature around the San Antonio River Basin? The San Antonio River Authority is hosting its eighth annual River Clicks Photo Contest for people who love to showcase the natural wonders around them.

The “Don’t Let Litter Trash Your River” initiative intends to educate the communities throughout the basin and encourage the public to take part in helping keep area creeks and rivers clean by not littering and picking up trash when they see it on the ground.

A clean river is a happy river, and that’s been to goal for the “Don’t Let Litter Trash Your River” public outreach initiative.

Invasive zebra mussels that are known to harm wildlife have been detected at Medina Lake and could spread to nearby waterways, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

As part of the San Antonio River Authority’s commitment to safe, clean, enjoyable creeks and rivers, the agency created the San Antonio River Basin Report Card. The expert engineers, scientists, technical and specialized staff of the River Authority exercised their best professional judgment to determine the most meaningful list of indicators for this inaugural river basin report card. For this inaugural San Antonio River Basin Report Card, the overall basin grade is 66.2. Given the broader spread in scores, the overall river basin report card numeric score of 66.2 equates to a “B” grade. The River Authority intends to issue future river basin report cards each September to correspond with World Rivers Day.

As part of the San Antonio River Authority’s commitment to safe, clean, enjoyable creeks and rivers, the group created the San Antonio River Basin Report Card. The expert engineers, scientists, technical and specialized staff of the River Authority exercised their best professional judgment to determine the most meaningful list of indicators for this inaugural river basin report card. For this inaugural San Antonio River Basin Report Card, the overall basin grade is 66.2. Given the broader spread in scores, the overall river basin report card numeric score of 66.2 equates to a “B” grade. The River Authority intends to issue future river basin report cards each September to correspond with World Rivers Day.