The lakes and streams of Steuben County are some of the most valuable natural resources in the state of Indiana. There are several resource tabs about water quality that residents can use to expand their knowledge of water quality issues and ways they can help improve it.

Several organizations, agencies, and colleges are completing water monitoring across the state of Indiana.  In efforts to organize the water monitoring being completed by these various entities the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, in conjunction with Purdue University and several other partners, developed Monitoring Water in Indiana: Choices for Nonpoint Source and Other Watershed Projects to assist water monitoring groups in developing a water monitoring program.