Water Rangers

🚨The 2025 Watershed Reports are here! 🚨 It’s time to dive into the latest insights on freshwater health in Canada 🌊. These reports bring together data from across the country, helping us better understand our watersheds. What are you wading for? Explore the findings and see how your watershed is doing. With data on water quality, flow, benthic invertebrates, and fish across 164 watersheds—powered by over 34 million data points—there’s so much to discover. View the reports at watershedreports.ca It’s not too late to join the webinar and party! Share your biggest takeaways and join the conversation on taking action for healthy freshwater! 📊 Register for the webinar: https://lnkd.in/emapttgX 🎉 Celebrate with us in Ottawa: https://lnkd.in/e-chf6qw

Do you know how it’s flowing? 💧🎉 Play our Watershed Reports Bingo for a chance to win a 'How’s it flowing?'t-shirt! Download your card, fill out all of the boxes as you explore the reports, and submit it by our webinar on April 16. Dive into the data! 👉 https://lnkd.in/dS3Y9XHt #WatershedReports2025 #FreshwaterFun

🚨 Join us for our second Watershed Reports webinar! 🚨 It’s been a week since the launch of Watershed Reports, and we know you have questions! 🌊💬 This webinar will provide an overview of the reports, dive into how the scores were calculated, and highlight key insights. 📅 Date: Wednesday, April 16 🕑 Time: 10:00 AM EST 🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/exAW6eJS Before joining, explore www.watershedreports.ca and bring your questions! See you there! 💧 #WatershedReports #CleanWater #EnvironmentalInsights #OpenData #FreshwaterMatters

The 2025 Watershed Reports have officially launched! 🌎💧Last week, we came together in Ottawa to celebrate this huge milestone with just some of the incredible people who helped make it happen. These reports reflect the dedication and hard work of so many who are committed to protecting freshwater across Canada. A huge shoutout to our Watershed Reports team— Kat Kavanagh, Gabrielle Parent-Doliner, Kiersten McCutcheon, David Zilkey, Paige Lipczynski, Emily Lorra Hines, Nikolas MacLean, Praise O., and Laura Gilbert. Your dedication brought this vision to life! To WWF-Canada for laying the groundwork for these reports and to Catherine Paquette for your invaluable guidance—thank you. To AquaAction our exclusive funder, your belief in this work made it possible. Special thanks to Soula Chronopoulos for your ongoing support! We’re also incredibly grateful to the scientific advisors, data managers, and agencies who have collected and stewarded water data—some for over a century! A special thank you to DataStream, whose datasets accounted for 78% of the 24M+ water quality data points analyzed. To our external team from the Living Data Project and Entremission—your expertise helped bring these reports to life. And to Meghan Callon, your beautiful illustrations of freshwater species add so much to this work. Finally, a big thank you to Impact Hub Ottawa for providing such a welcoming and beautiful space to mark this launch! This was a true collective effort, and we’re so grateful to everyone who contributed, shared knowledge, and championed this project. Together, we’re making waves for freshwater health! 💙 #WatershedReports #FreshwaterHealth #WaterRangers

💧 Happy #WorldWaterDay! Water connects us all, from the smallest creek to vast rivers and lakes -- every drop is part of a shared system that sustains life. That's why we are committed to making it easier to monitor and protect water by providing testkits and open data. Because we believe every community should have the tools to care for their local waterways. Stay tuned for #TheWatershedReports2025, where we'll be breaking down what we know about the state of freshwater in Canada: watershedreports.ca

💧 A sneak peek at the data behind the 2025 Watershed Reports! Water quality, one of our four indicators, had over 20 million data points analyzed, of which 78% came from DataStream! Their expansion into new regions has made water data more accessible than ever, strengthening our understanding of watershed health across Canada. This report wouldn’t be possible without the many contributors across academia, government, Indigenous nations, NGOs, industry, and local communities. Join us on March 26th for the big launch! 📊Sign up for the webinar: https://lnkd.in/emapttgX 🎉Attend the Launch Party in Ottawa: https://lnkd.in/ep9ANwuh #WatershedReports #OpenData #FreshwaterMatter

We had a fantastic time at #Americana2025, filled with innovation, creativity, and solutions for a sustainable water future! Alongside five other entrepreneurs, our Executive Director Kat Kavanagh took the stage for the #AquaHeroes presentation organized by AquaAction—rocking her Watershed Reports dress, which was a hit! 🎉 Kat spoke about the need for water data to understand and protect our waters and pumped up the crowd by announcing the launch of the 2025 Watershed Reports on March 26! Kat's dress, along with other Watershed Reports merch, will be available at our launch party—join us to celebrate in person or at the webinar! 🌊 Learn more at watershedreports.ca. Thank you to Réseau Environnement and AquaAction for having us, and a special shoutout to the incredible team of entrepreneurs who are promising a great water future: 💧 Eddy Dureuil of Ecotime 🏒 Alain Phaneuf of Phaneuf International ⚪ Thomas Gradek of RHST Industries Inc 🟢 Kimia Shafighi of Biocene Solutions (winner of the L’Avery Prize!) 🌊 Maria Enza Verrelli of Ceresco Nutrition

💧The excitement is rippling for the launch of the 2025 Watershed Reports! 🌊 We're not the only ones buzzing—DataStream, WWF-Canada, AquaAction , and Canada Water Agency are all sharing why these reports matter for the future of freshwater in Canada. Celebrate with us on March 26th by: 📊 Joining our webinar for a deep dive into the Reports, with opportunities for questions and feedback: https://lnkd.in/emapttgX 🎉 Attending the official Launch Party in Ottawa at Impact Hub Ottawa: https://lnkd.in/ep9ANwuh #WatershedReports #FreshwaterMatters Soula Chronopoulos Elizabeth Hendriks Katherine Balpataky Jim M.C. Young

CAGIS Virtual dove into community science and water testing in February with Water Rangers! Participants got to test their local water sources for alkalinity, chloride content, and more using testing kits generously donated by Water Rangers. Then, they made their own Secchi disks, a tool used to analyze water turbidity! #CommunityScience #WaterTesting #GirlsInSTEM #Gender-DiverseYouthInSTEM

A big welcome and thank you to Paige Lipczynski for joining the team as a data rescue intern, from the Living Data Project! She is working on the fish data for the Watershed Reports. Thank you to the Living Data Project, an internship program run by the Canadian Institute of Ecology and Evolution, for funding and supporting Paige's role! About Paige: My name is Paige Lipczynski and I’m a fourth year Undergraduate Student in Biology at McGill University! I have been involved in the aquatic science realm for the past two years, predominantly in freshwater fish research. I’ve worked the past two field seasons as a Student Aquatic Science Technician for the Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries and Aquatic Science with freshwater fish species at risk, and I am currently researching the ecophysiology of cichlids from the Lake Nabugabo region in Uganda. Outside of work and school, I spend most of my time outdoors running, hiking, camping, skiing and kayaking!