Freshwater Future Canada Blog
Stay up to date with the things Freshwater Future Canada is working on to help ensure the healthy future of the Great Lakes.
Freshwater Future Weekly: February 13, 2026
This Week: Community Support Protects Our Waters; Canada’s Lake Ontario Fish Habitat Information Session; Grant Writing Learning Session; Mindfulness and Movement; Now Accepting Grant Proposals; Oppose a Federal Proposal Harmful to Waterways; Indiana Residents - Urgent Action
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Freshwater Future Weekly: February 6, 2026
This Week: Thank You to the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation; Learning Opportunities; Mindfulness and Movement; Grant Cycle Open; Protect Waterways from Federal Deregulation; Indiana Residents - Urgent Action; Tonawanda Seneca Nation’s Data Center Fight; Learning Sessions and Workshops
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Freshwater Future Weekly: January 30, 2026
This Week: United by Our Shared Voices; Spring Grant Cycle Open; Determine Learning Sessions; Protect Waterways from Federal Deregulation; Indiana Residents - Urgent Action; Development Threatens Clean Water and Sovereignty of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation; Win! Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules in Favor
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Freshwater Future Weekly: January 23, 2026
This Week: Statement on MLK Jr. Day and Renee Good; Your Input is Needed: Help Us Determine Learning Sessions and Workshops for 2026; New: Speak out to Protect Waterways from Federal Deregulation; New: Indiana State Senate Considers Dismantling Environmental Regulatory Agency
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Freshwater Future Weekly: January 16, 2026
This Week: Register today for Mindfulness and Movement; [Blog] Less Commission, More People: What A Global Debate on “Valuing” Water Means for the Great Lakes States; More Ontario Communities Commit to Smarter Road Salt Practices
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Freshwater Future Weekly: January 9, 2026
This Week: Basic Introduction to Cyber Security; Mindfulness and Movement; First Nations Win Lawsuit that Government is Required to Provide Safe Water; New Tool: Lead Service Line Inventory; State Legislative Update: Large Water Withdrawals and Data Centers
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Freshwater Future Weekly: January 2, 2026
This Week: Thank You for Your Support; Last Chance to Ask the U.S. EPA to Protect Wetlands and Clean Water; January 13th, Join Us to Enhance your Organization’s Cyber Security; Save the Date for January’s Mindfulness and Movement Session
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Freshwater Future Weekly: December 23, 2025
This week: Enhance your Organization’s Cyber Security; Make a Difference with Your Year-End Gift; New – Protect Wetlands and Clean Water: No Changes to the Definition of “Waters of the United States”
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Freshwater Future Weekly: December 19, 2025
This Week: No Changes to the Definition of “Waters of the United States”; Make a Difference with Your Year-End Gift; Enhance your Organization’s Cyber Security; Advocates Rally for Community Protections from Data Centers
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Freshwater Future Weekly: December 12, 2025
This Week: Mindfulness and Meditation; Win! No Public Funds for Private Wastewater Systems; Your Year-End Gift is More Important Than Ever; Canadian Cabinet Resignation Highlights Pattern of Limited Engagement with Indigenous Communities
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Freshwater Future Weekly: December 5, 2025
Thank you for Supporting Our Work; Grateful for Our Volunteers; Tell your U.S. Rep and Senators: Vote NO on the Anti-Clean Water Bill; Keeping Your Nonprofit Compliant and Safe; Mindfulness and Movement
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Freshwater Future Weekly: November 26, 2025
This Week: Keeping Chicago Residents Informed About Lead; Double the Impact of Your Donation on Giving Tuesday; Keeping Your Nonprofit Compliant and Safe; Mindfulness and Meditation; Ontario Advocates Protest Passage of Bill that Supports Private Take Over of Public Water Supplies
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Freshwater Future Weekly: November 21, 2025
This Week: Keeping Your Nonprofit Compliant and Safe Into the Future; Mindfulness and Meditation; Buffalo Warned of Unaffordable Water Rates to Replace Lead Pipes; Drinking Water Control, Safety, and Affordability at Risk under Ontario’s Bill 60
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Freshwater Future Weekly: November 14, 2025
This Week: Pellston One Step Closer to Safe Drinking Water; Keeping Your Nonprofit Compliant; Mindfulness and Meditation; Win! Minnesota Mine Must Limit Sulfate Pollution to Protect Wild Rice
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Freshwater Future Weekly: November 7, 2025
This Week: Mindfulness and Meditation; Win! Western New York Data Center Approvals Canceled Following Legal Violations; Halloween Rally Protests the Restart of “Zombie” Nuclear Reactor; Researchers: Ontario’s Don River Needs Better Protection from Plastics; Webinar: Big Oil vs Big Water; Funding Opportunity
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Freshwater Future Weekly: December 28, 2023
This Week: There’s Still Time to Give your Year-End Gift to Bring People One Step Closer to Having Clean and Safe Water;...
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Freshwater Future Weekly: December 21, 2023
This Week: Your Gift Today, Support Our Fight for Safe Drinking Water; Strengthening the New Lead and Copper Rule: Replacing Lead Pipes with Plastic...
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Freshwater Future Weekly: December 15, 2023
This Week: Take Action - Use your Voice to Ensure the Strongest Lead Protections in Drinking Water; Rocket Launch Site on Lake Superior Blocked;...
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Freshwater Future Weekly: December 8, 2023
Make Your Voice Heard: The New Lead and Copper Draft Rule is Out; Give Your Year-End Gift and support NO...
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Freshwater Future Weekly: November 22, 2023
This Week: #GivingTuesday Next Week; Freshwater Voices Newsletter Available Online; Staying Vigilant: Freshwater Future Watches for Lead in your Drinking Water;...
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