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July 25th-27th is Swimmable Water Weekend
Swimmable Water Weekend is the perfect opportunity to go for a dip and remember what is so loveable about water in the first place. Join the global movement of people celebrating water by plunging into their local swimming holes, diving off docks, wadding into rivers, and crashing into the waves.
Lake Ontario shark vs aquatic fire-breathing dragon
We all need to go outside more often. Peer under the water and look for fish. Peek under rocks and look for bugs. Get to know what lives in the world around us. Perhaps you'll be the one to spot a shark or the mysterious Gaasyendietha next time.
I tweeted about sewage. This is what happened next.
How Waterkeeper’s investigation into Toronto’s sewage bypass problem started. Mark Mattson tells the story behind our Request for Review application on the anniversary of the 2013 flood.
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.
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