Third Annual New Brunswick Lakes Conference
Eastern Charlotte Waterways hosted the third Annual New Brunswick Lakes Conference. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘Inspiring Stewardship.’ The goal of the event was to help establish a foundation on which to build New Brunswick’s future lake stewardship efforts. […]
Water Canada Intervew: John Ralston Saul on Environment, Economics, Governance and First Nations
Written by Kerry Freek, Water Canada Photo by Stefan Lorimer taken in Pangnurtung Inlet, Nunavut In advance of his keynote presentation at the upcoming Columbia Basin Watershed Network Symposium, Water Canada spoke with John Ralston Saul, Canadian intellectual and author […]
First Nations Rally to Save Lake Winnipeg From Blue-Green Algae Curse
In 2010, Gord Bluesky, the lands and resources manager for Brokenhead Ojibway Nation, received a disturbing photograph in his inbox. “One of my community members was at Patricia Beach. It was mid-November,” he told DeSmog Canada. “She sent me a picture […]
LUSH Cosmetics Launches ‘Take Back the Tap’ Campaign
Vancouver – Ethical beauty retailer, LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics is proud to announce they are taking back the tap by saying no to bottled water, and want the public to do the same. Drinking tap water is a smart choice for more […]
Featured Project
Columbia Basin Water Monitoring Collaborative & Water Hub
The Columbia Basin Water Monitoring Collaborative (Monitoring Collaborative) is the current iteration of the Columbia Basin Water Monitoring Framework and Data Hub Initiative that got underway in November 2017 when Living Lakes Canada co-hosted the Cracking the Code in 3D: […]
Projects
Living Lakes Canada delivers programs in 4 core areas: watershed awareness and education; citizen science and stewardship; watershed restoration; and innovative policy approaches for governance, management, and planning. We are a collaboration of community organizations working to build capacity for the effective protection of Canada’s freshwater resources, by bridging the gap between science and action to foster a culture of normalizing water stewardship through citizen science.