She founded No Water No Life ¨ in 2006 to raise public awareness of freshwater issues by combining the powers of photography and science in three watersheds in North America and three in northeastern Africa. She and No Water No Life teams have thus far completed nine expeditions to the Blue Nile, Mara, Columbia, Mississippi and Raritan River Basins. While creating multi-media outputs for No Water No Life Alison has also fostered stewarding partnerships within and between watersheds, used her photography to help halt destructive watershed development, provided educational tools for teachers and students and raised general awareness to help create a global political will to protect the planet’s fresh water resources.