About this organization
Swim Drink Fish strives to create swimmable, drinkable, fishable water. This vision is to connect people to water by giving communities access to information and empowering them to act. Our vision has come to fruition, and continues to grow, thanks to the power of community-based action.
Swim Drink Fish has three offices in Canada: Vancouver (BC), Toronto (ON), and Edmonton (AB).
Swim Drink Fish also operates summer monitoring hubs in Kingston and Victoria.
Swim Drink Fish was founded in 2001, and originally had the name ‘Lake Ontario Waterkeeper’. The mission was to protect the watersheds in Southern Ontario, where the founders, Mark Mattson and Krystyn Tully, grew up. The organization uses a multidisciplinary approach in applying environmental law, science, storytelling and technology to educate and empower people to protect their local waters. Currently, Swim Drink Fish is focused on safeguarding the waters of the Great Lakes and other Canadian waterbodies.
