This past spring, as we all began exploring new world realities amidst the early days of Covid-19, the Our Living Waters Network finalized and established our annual priorities for the coming year. As with everything post March 2020, these priorities are in constant flux, with new opportunities and challenges emerging as a result of the […]
2020-2021 Network Priorities Read More »
Included in this toolkit: Need to Know Documents What are we asking for? Who are we asking? Setting up a meeting with your MP Tips for meeting with your MP/MLA/MPP Talking points for meeting with your MP What to do after your MP Meeting Other opportunities for action Need to Know Documents The Our Living
Investing in Canada’s Water Security – MP Toolkit Read More »
Investing in ‘shovel-ready’ and ‘shovel-worthy’ jobs that advance climate resiliency and water security can create an immediate 3638 jobs and nearly 1.5 million job hours in over 300 projects across the country. By prioritizing investment in small, rural and Indigenous communities we can put people to work across numerous impacted communities from coast-to-coast-to-coast. Read our letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and
Growing the Economy and Building a Climate Resilient, Water Secure Future Read More »
42 groups came together to encourage Prime Minister Trudeau and key federal ministers to invest in natural infrastructure as a part of Canada’s COVID-19 recovery plan. In an open letter submitted on Thursday May 21st, the groups provide detailed recommendations for investment in natural infrastructure as an integral part of Canada’s economic recovery from the
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Faces of the OLW Network: Lina Azeez, Watershed Watch Salmon Society 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. The OLW Network relies on our connections and collaborations with each other, so we want to highlight the most important aspect
Faces of the OLW Network: Lina Azeez, Watershed Watch Salmon Society Read More »
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.
2019-2020 Annual Report Read More »
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
Faces of the OLW Network: Liz Hendriks, WWF Canada Read More »
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
Combined Sewer Overflow data now available on Open Government Portal Read More »
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
Water quality data at your fingertips Read More »
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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