Swim Drink Fish Blog
Read the latest updates and news releases about community science, water monitoring, Artists for Water, and more.
Toronto residents need alerts when City dumps sewage into Lake Ontario, argues Waterkeeper in new legal application (Press Release)
For Immediate Release - The City of Toronto has a sewage problem that could affect public health says Lake Ontario Waterkeeper. The organization’s co-founders filed a legal application with the Province of Ontario today asking the city to issue alerts when it bypasses sewage into public waterways.
Toronto has a sewage bypass problem - the argument for a sewage alert protocol in Toronto
On July 7, 2014, Mark Mattson and Krystyn Tully of Lake Ontario Waterkeeper filed a request to the province of Ontario to bring sewage bypass alerts to Toronto. If successful, Torontonians would be alerted every time the city dumps sewage into public waters (about three times a month). Here's our case.
Can Canada do more for the Great Lakes? Yes, absolutely
Waterkeeper thinks that Canada and Ontario can do more. We think the Great Lakes need more. And so that’s what we said.
Are you a recreational water user in Toronto? Register here!
Are you a recreational water user in Toronto? We need your help.
Volunteer with Waterkeeper this summer!
We are looking for summer volunteers. Interested in helping out?
Is Toronto weakening its rules against industrial pollution?
Changes to city by-law would make it easier for Toronto industry to flush arsenic, mercury, lead, PCBs and other nasty pollutants down the drain. When the city’s system overflows - like it did on Wednesday night - these pollutants end up in Lake Ontario.
Authors, sewage gather on Wolfe Island for litfest
Mark Mattson describes the 2014 Joe Burke Wolfe Island Literary Festival - and the City of Kingston's recent sewage spills that provided a thought-provoking setting for the event.
*UPDATED June 23* Information Bulletin: Government of Canada, OPG & CNSC appeal Darlington New Nuclear Plant court decision
The Attorney General of Canada, Minister of the Environment, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Minister of Transport, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) and Ontario Power Generation (OPG) have notified us they will try to resurrect nuclear expansion project in Darlington, Ontario.
Volunteer Opportunity: Skeleton Park Arts Festival
Will you help us at Skeleton Park in Kingston on the 22nd? We’re looking for volunteers to help out at the festival from 2 to 5 PM.
Email Rebecca Steele at beach@theswimguide.org to get involved.
Reflections on GroundSwell
I talked about each individual's personal connection to water. After I spoke, Teri Morrow of the Six Nations of the Grand River shared her poem "She resides there". I thought it was the perfect end to the event and asked her if we could share it here.