Our Living Waters 2019 – 2020 Annual Report
Our Living Waters 2019 – 2020 Annual Report Our Living Waters 2019 – 2020 Annual Report Take a look at the 2019 – 2020 Annual Report here.
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Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and key federal ministers to invest in natural infrastructure
Read this May 2020 letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and key federal ministers, encouraging investment in natural infrastructure as a part of Canada’s COVID recovery plan.
Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to advance climate resiliency and water security
Read this May 2020 letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, including a summary of over 300 projects to advance climate resiliency and water security across the country.
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2019-2020 Annual Report
We are so thrilled to share our report of annual activities for the Our Living Waters Network! Take a flip through below or download a pdf version.
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Faces of the OLW Network: Liz Hendriks, WWF Canada
Faces of the OLW Network: Liz Hendriks, WWF Canada Behind each member of the OLW Network, their projects, and their efforts to help turn the curve on our collective OLW impact measures are people. With all this (gestures broadly) happening around us due to COVID-19, these are truly times for family, friends and for embracing our social
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Combined Sewer Overflow data now available on Open Government Portal
From 2013 to 2017, 890 million cubic metres of untreated sewage and wastewater effluent was released from combined sewer overflows (CSOs) into 844 different waterbodies across Canada. For some context, this equates to untreated sewage flowing over Niagara Falls for 3.7 days, or 88.8 hours. This also means it could fill everyone’s bathtub in Canada
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Water quality data at your fingertips
A new online platform will help close the gap between data and decision-making. Lake Winnipeg DataStream is an open-access, online portal for water-quality data. Led nationally by The Gordon Foundation, Lake Winnipeg DataStream launched in collaboration with LWF on March 20, 2019. Lake Winnipeg’s portal is the third in the national DataStream network, pioneered in
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Atlantic Datastream creating open-access data
The uptake of Atlantic DataStream has been tremendous with 40 environmental non profits, provincial and federal governments coming on board to share their water quality data since the open access database went live in June 2018. However this wasn’t always the case. Following the kick off event, we had just under 30 monitoring groups online and still
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Radical renewal of Canada’s Water Act necessary
On April 11, 2019, a wide range of people united by their common concern for Canada’s water future – water and climate scientists, policy experts, legislators, and water decision rights-holders and stakeholders – gathered in Ottawa to discuss solutions for Canada’s emerging water crisis. The event featured a beautiful venue, distinguished panel, and attendance by
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Depaving paradise in Atlantic Canada
The Town of Sackville, New Brunswick prides itself on their proximity to Tantramar marshes, the Bay of Fundy and the suite of nature-based recreational opportunities available. A University town, the community has a self-described cosmopolitan, artistic and pedestrian-friendly vibe. EOS Eco-Energy has been active in Sackville and the surrounding Memramcook-Tantramar region for more than 15 years.
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