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The Canadian Coalition for Healthy Waters Visits the Hill

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Fifteen meetings. Seventeen Members of Parliament and federal officials. Twelve representatives from the Canadian Coalition for Healthy Waters. Two lobby days in Ottawa. Countless weeks of prep and follow-up. Here’s your window into the intricate choreography that federal water advocacy calls for! From left to right: CCHW members Mathieu Laneuville, Nicole Trigg, Andrew Stegemann, Coree Tull […]

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Training a Team of Sewage Investigators

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Swim Drink Fish Canada has been engaging the public in education and advocacy, raising awareness about combined sewer overflows for almost 20 years.  During the unprecedented summer of 2020, those seeking respite gathered at beaches across Canada to find solace in their home waterbodies. Travel restrictions meant many people were exploring their local waters, some

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A Green Infrastructure Community of Practice Envisions ‘Living Cities’ Across Canada

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Green infrastructure has been an Our Living Waters Network priority issue for the past several years. In response, the Our Living Waters 2030 Fund has provided ongoing funding to a team that works to advance local action on green infrastructure.  Green infrastructure has been an Our Living Waters Network priority issue for the past several years. In

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Groundtruthing and filling water data gaps in Atlantic Canada

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Image above: The Portapique River in Nova Scotia where salmon eggs have been introduced in-stream to increase the population of endangered Inner Bay of Fundy (iBoF) Atlantic Salmon. The Maritime Aboriginal Peoples Council (MAPC) are monitoring water quality to identify areas of habitat concern for this culturally and environmentally significant species. Photo by Aislin Livingstone

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Our Collective Vision for the Canada Water Agency: A Joint Submission

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The government of Canada is creating a new Canada Water Agency and, as is often the nature of such emerging institutions, the details of what it will be are not yet known. Here is a quick outline of the process to date: First announced in the Liberal Party of Canada’s 2019 election platform, the CWA

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Empowering communities through open access to water data in the Columbia Basin

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An open-source database now makes critical water data readily available for water stewardship groups and decision-makers in the Upper (Canadian side) Columbia Basin! The recently launched Columbia Basin Water Hub acts as a central repository for water-related data relevant to the region. Water datasets collected by community water monitoring groups are now available to support decision-makers who

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Community-based Water Monitoring & the Canada Water Agency

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Calling all community-based water monitoring supporters: A coalition of Community-Based Water Monitoring (CBWM) leaders from across the country has been working to raise the profile of CBWM in Canada and advocate for its credibility on the federal stage. CBWM programs provide vital, complementary data that can fill gaps in the federal government’s data collection. That is if the

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Funding Water Projects Across Canada Virtual Gathering

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Over 50 freshwater champions registered for our November 19, 2020 virtual gathering to discuss the topic of Funding Water Projects Across Canada. We had a great turnout! We gathered to find the answer to a thought-provoking question: Is there a desire from the freshwater community to collectively call on the federal government to better fund water projects right

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Driving federal action in support of water data and community based monitoring

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What does it take to trigger implementation of recommendations posed to the Federal government? For the past nine months the Federal Water Strategy Team has been meeting to explore exactly that. In late 2018, the National Roundtable on Community Based Water Monitoring released a collaborative report with detailed recommendations on how the federal government could advance community

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