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.
A watershed based approach to water sampling
Measuring pollutants in different water categories throughout the watersheds of British Columbia.
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.
Building capacity to better protect water
Our community water pollution monitoring initiative.
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.
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.
Meet Samantha Scott, Raincoast’s new Water Quality Coordinator
Sam has joined our Healthy Waters Program team as a Water Quality Coordinator. She assists Dr. Peter Ross in the implementation of community-based research into water quality in various watersheds around southern British Columbia. Sam received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Simon Fraser University. While studying at SFU she had the opportunity…
