Freshwater Awareness

A large, circular piece of fabric art hanging outdoors, featuring hand-drawn maps, symbols, and blue shaded areas resembling water. It is framed against a clear blue sky, with a yellow building and greenery in the background. / Une grande pièce dart en tissu circulaire suspendue à lextérieur, présentant des cartes dessinées à la main, des symboles et des zones ombrées de bleu ressemblant à de leau. Elle est encadrée par un ciel bleu clair avec un bâtiment jaune et de la verdure en arrière-plan.

The Art of Water: Weaving Reciprocal Relations with Water into our June Meetup

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Our Living Waters is incorporating art into virtual events by inviting artists to participate at some of our Member Meetups. This focus on The Art of Water aims to: highlight effective ways of driving change; honour the sacredness of water; and centre on Right Relations with Indigenous Peoples and waters in Canada. Betty Carpick’s interdisciplinary […]

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Colourful abstract water art | Art de l'eau abstrait et colorié

The Art of Water: Waterlution’s Integrated Arts Strategy

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Our Living Waters has decided to feature stories about member organizations’ use of art in their work, and to put a spotlight on the art and artists involved! This focus on “The Art of Water” aims to: highlight effective ways of driving change; honour the sacredness of water; and centre on right relations with Indigenous

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Alt text: People enjoying a sunny day at a beach area, some swimming in the water, others relaxing on the pebble shore. The scene includes a pier, lifebuoys, and distant greenery under a clear blue sky. / Des gens profitent dune journée ensoleillée sur une plage; certains nagent dans leau tandis que dautres se détendent sur le rivage de galets. La scène comprend un quai, des bouées de sauvetage et une végétation lointaine sous un ciel bleu clair.

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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Bridge and buildings in Montreal Quebec, with many urban forested areas (in autumn colours) interspersed amongst them | Pont et bâtiments à Montréal, au Québec, avec de nombreuses zones forestières urbaines (aux couleurs automnales) disséminées parmi eux

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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A spawning salmon turned red and green in shallow water with loose gravel | Un saumon en période de frai est devenu rouge et vert dans des eaux peu profondes recouvertes de gravier meuble

What does a good relationship with water look like?

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People inherently believe that communities impacted by unhealthy waters (or threats to healthy waters) should have a say in decisions that impact those waters. In parallel, they respond strongly when it is felt that companies have greater impact on decisions then local residents – the support generated when it was proposed that Nestlé had greater

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Red fall leaves in the foreground with a white stream further back in Algonquin Park | Feuilles rouges d'automne au premier plan avec un ruisseau blanc plus loin à l'arrière-plan dans le parc Algonquin

A changing water narrative – how will we know?

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This whole conversation on the current dominant narrative around freshwater health in Canada points to both challenges and opportunities that as non-profit freshwater champions we need to embrace, to both alter the dominant narrative (that freshwater values exist in our subconscious, that acting to protect water results in negative economic decisions and that we don’t

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