By Sadie Caron
Get ready for a cliche: it’s been a tough year. The pandemic has put serious strain on many people across the globe. Isolation has caused extra challenges that make dealing with day to day life even harder.
Cold Water Swimming Part 2: A Jump-start For My Nervous System
Cold Water Swimming: 5 Reasons Why You Should Just Go Do It
By Imogene Broberg-Hull
My mind's tellin' me no, but my body, my body's tellin' me yes...Wait, no - the other way around! Jumping in freezing cold water seems like just about the least intuitive thing ever, but what if cold water swimming is exactly what you need?
5 Positive Things That Came Out of Our Most Challenging Year to Date
By Imogene Broberg-Hull
2020 has been a tough year for all of us. But with the creativity, strength, and positivity of our amazing community across Canada, we’ve emerged from this year as optimistic as ever.
Most Likely To...Fraser River FISH Edition
Celebrate World Fisheries Day this year by reading about some of our favorite fish in the Fraser River basin!
Vancouver Shares Real Time Sewage Spill Alerts With Public
By Lauren Hornor and Mark Mattson
Joining cities of Kingston and Sudbury, Vancouver is on its way to providing real-time maps of the sewer system, and real-time sewer overflow alerts for the public. This move is a powerful indicator of change towards protecting swimmable, drinkable, fishable water for everyone. Swim Drink Fish is excited about Vancouver’s decision and hopes Toronto is next.
What Lurks Beneath: The Legend of Ogopogo
By Imogene Broberg-Hull
You think you saw something in the water. Iridescent green scales twinkle in the light of an undulating wave on the surface of the water. Surely not! It couldn’t be what you think it is, you don’t believe in that stuff, right?
How Upgrading the Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant to “True Tertiary” Would Fulfill a Legacy - Fraser Riverkeeper
By Lauren Brown Hornor
Today, Fraser Riverkeeper submits its comments in support of Metro Vancouver’s proposal to upgrade Iona Plant to tertiary level of wastewater treatment.
It takes time, resilience, patience, and leadership to build a community of people working for swimmable, drinkable fishable water.
The recent announcement by Metro Vancouver that the Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant, after 57 years of functioning as a rudimentary primary treatment facility (discharging undertreated sewage directly into the Salish Sea), will be upgraded to a tertiary plant (one that has the potential to be truly protective of water quality and fish habitat), underscores how dedication, hard work and a team of passionate people can make a meaningful impact.
Following The Mighty Fraser
Deep in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia’s Mount Robson Provincial Park there is a dribbling spring. This backcountry stream forms the source of the mighty Fraser River, British Columbia’s longest and most prolific waterway.[1]
What Do We Do With The Poo?
By Imogene Broberg-Hull
Birds do it, bees do it…got a feeling even sailors on the high seas do it. Fall in love? No, I’m talking about poop.
The Secret Night Lives of Plankton
Vancouver fireworks may be cancelled this year, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still take in a spectacular nighttime light show. Don’t look up, look down!
