ShomeSwim

Join Us! I know it’s late notice for many, but Maude Barlow – Canada’s Water Warrior – will be presenting her ideas about the situation with the Great Lakes at the Aeolian Theatre in London on May 30, 2012. Tell all your friends! Other dates and locations: May 28 – Township of Tiny May 29 [...]

From this site, we get a pretty scary list of 25 reasons why there should be concern for the water in our world: Every single day, we are getting closer to a horrific global water crisis. This world was blessed with an awesome amount of fresh water, but because of our foolishness it is rapidly [...]

Great Lakes United does its best to educate the millions of people that live off Great Lakes water. In a recent plea, they urge diplomats from Canada and the US to include a number of essential requests in the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, including the following: A visionary strategy for the 21st Century and [...]

On June 30, the day that I finished the SHOME Swim, Andre Picard of the Globe and Mail published a piece questioning how safe our drinking water is. Original link can be found here. Some quotes of note: Every day there up nearly 1,000 boil-water adviseries in Canadian communities Few resources are being committed in [...]

Maude Barlow, water advocate for the Council of Canadians, was in Penticton last night presenting some views on international water issues.  Maude Barlow has been a lead advocate for the public protection of water rights and has been encouraging the UN to declare that water is a human right.  More about these efforts can be [...]