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Whether it be on the water, a field or the court, the sustainability leaders with the surfing, skiing, #NBA #PGA #MLB and #NFL are working diligently on going faster with what they can do on the changing climate. The latest report from the Rugby community shows the considerable impact climate change is having on their sport. Games cancelled, postponed, lost resources, fields, impact on athlete's health and much more is having this industry going further on the work needed to mitigate the warming of the planet. You can't ski if you have no snow. You can't have the Winter Olympic Games either. The #24GSASummit was clear. Competition should be left on the field. Collaboration and advancing for a win on climate must be done together. @GreenSportsAlliance #teamsport #sports #collaboration #climateaction

🏫 🏊♂️ Our guide will help your #CDNmuni build a net-zero plan for indoor swimming pool facilities. Pulling from the net-zero feasibility studies of four community centres with indoor pools in Ontario, the document includes replicable measures to reducing GHG emissions, lessons learned throughout the process, and key statistics to help you build a case. Discover more in our guide: Taking your indoor swimming pool to net zero. https://lnkd.in/dSET5H-M

Did Paris actually manage to clean the Seine - where swimming has been banned for over a century - just in time for the Olympics?🤯 In one of our posts last week, we discussed the pollution in the Seine and its impact on the upcoming Olympics. In the month leading up to the games, E. coli bacteria levels in the river were dangerously high. But, on Wednesday, the World Triathlon and Paris 2024 tested the water and confirmed it was safe for swimming, even in the consistent rainy weather. So, the triathlon competitions, starting with a 1.5-kilometer swim in the Seine, went ahead on July 31. 🏊 About $1.5 billion has been spent to clean up the river for the Olympics. One key project has been a new rainwater storage basin, which, according to Paris 2024, can hold as much water as 20 Olympic swimming pools, preventing it from being discharged into the Seine.💧 🏟 Read more on the current situation here - https://lnkd.in/gfqJRFZF Although the Mayor's recent statement that pollution in the Seine has been cleaned up raises doubts, Paris is definitely making strides in the right direction. Hopefully, the city will continue updating the old sewage system even after the games are over and the public attention fades. #Paris2024 #Olympics2024 #Seine #Triathlon #CleanWater #WaterSanitation #Sewers

🏊♀️⛸️#CDNmuni can significantly reduce their GHG emissions by improving the energy efficiency of their indoor swimming pools and ice rinks. But how do you start a project like that? Our guides can help you build a net-zero plan by demonstrating important approaches, lessons learned and real statistics from feasibility studies that were recently conducted in several municipalities across Ontario. Get started by downloading our guides on indoor swimming pools and ice rinks (found at the bottom of the page). 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gTnZxiPf

☀️ Dive into the benefits of solar pool heating! From slashing energy bills to extending your swimming season, it's a win-win for you and the environment. #AllSolarEnergy #SolarPoolHeating #GreenLiving #LowMaintenance #RenewableEnergy #SustainableLiving #EnergyIndependence

Could you survive on nine litres of water a week? That’s what Sweden says citizens need in reserve in case of war or other emergency. https://lnkd.in/e7r7hk4n I presume that’s per person. Isn’t that a more mind-focussing way to visualise water volumes than Olympic swimming pools? Let’s think about it in terms of water leaks. A water leak which is wasting enough water to fill one Olympic swimming pool every year is a pretty small leak. But it’s enough water to supply 5 people in an emergency for one week – being lost every minute! I know which figure make me want to turn the tap off when brushing my teeth. Water scarcity is seriously scary. https://lnkd.in/ejpYqMsA #WaterScarcity #WaterResilience #Sustainability #ClimateAction #WaterInnovation

🌊 Hei hei, let’s make waves together! 🌊 Do you enjoy swimming as much as I do? Imagine this: together, we can save enough water to fill an Olympic-sized pool in just one year! 🏊♂️💧 Here’s how Jets Vacuum Toilets help us make a splash for the planet: 💡 One person, one year, one big difference: Traditional toilets use 6.5L per flush, while Jets use only 0.9L. That’s 16,352 liters saved per person annually—enough to meet your needs for a 5-minute shower every day for a year! 🚿 💧 Our water-saving goal: We need 153 water heroes to join us. Together, we’ll save 2.5 million liters of clean water—enough to fill an Olympic pool! 🌍✨ ➡️ Be the difference! Switch to Jets Vacuum Toilets and help save water, one flush at a time. Let’s do this—for swimming, for the planet, and for all our futures. 💙

🏊 Organisers say conditions for Olympic swimming events in Paris are now “entering the good zone”, despite the River Seine again failing safety tests. > Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet said he was “confident” that the river could be used for triathlon and marathon swimming contests in late July and August. > Testing in June showed that E.Coli levels in the river were 10 times acceptable levels, but Estanguet said the plan had always been to hold races this month, when conditions were better. 🔬 LGC Standards provides a huge range of reference materials and proficiency testing schemes to support your analysis of water in rivers, and many other matrices. Explore now: https://okt.to/14o8h2 #ParisOlympics #WaterQuality #WaterAnalysis