What is a watershed?
How can we use the movement of water through the landscape to inform our understanding of water quality?
A watershed based approach to assessing water quality in Cheakamus/Green River watersheds
Read our reports from working with Whistler Lakes Conservation Foundation in the Alpha, Nita, Alta, Lost, and Green lakes.
Needed: A freshwater protection strategy for Bowen Island
In early June, Dr. Peter Ross of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation presented Bowen Island Municipal Council with the results of a comprehensive analysis of pollutants in the Grafton Lake water supply. The findings revealed traces of human waste, highlighting the need for improved watershed management and better public education on responsible residential and recreational best…
Traces of human sewage in Grafton Lake
Water samples reveal cocaine and other pollutants in drinking water source for half of Bowen island residents.
We are encouraged by the federal government’s decision to grant our request to prioritize the tire chemical 6PPD for assessment
This is an important first step towards regulating this toxic chemical.
Sampling water during the wet season: A new partnership with the Lower Nicola Indian Band reflects a shared interest in protecting water
Land use impacts and floods in focus by Nicola River communities.
Sharing our plans for our future mobile lab
We are thrilled to share the design plan for Tracker – our future mobile lab.
Building capacity to better protect water
Our community water pollution monitoring initiative.
Help us build our new mobile lab, Tracker
Tracker will serve as the new mobile water pollution monitoring lab for our Healthy Waters Program.
Preliminary study of water quality in streams discharging into Fulford Harbour raise questions about land-based pollution
The key to restoring and protecting aquatic environments for people and wildlife is a high quality monitoring program upon which communities and managers may act.
Mapping the Semá:th X̱ó:tsa (Sumas Lake) region following the BC floods of 2021
Our new map shows water quality sampling sites and the re-emergence of Sumas Lake after the 2021 floods.
Biosolids pose a threat to healthy waters
Biosolids are nutrient rich, organic solid or semi-solid materials recovered from wastewater processing and their management is a growing challenge.
