Do you find yourself wondering if your favourite beach is safe for swimming? The Conservation Council has teamed up with Swim Guide, a free app with water quality information for 7,000 beaches worldwide, to help people find safe places to swim in New Brunswick.
The Conservation Council, along with the Petitcodiac Watershed Alliance, currently maintains information for more than a dozen recreational swimming sites throughout New Brunswick. To ensure the app is a one-stop-shop for water quality information, it will be updated as more data becomes available.
The Swim Guide website and app offers up to date water quality alerts, beach descriptions, photos, and directions. If you encounter any pollution while at the beach, you can report it directly through Swim Guide.
The app can be downloaded on your Apple or Android smartphone, and you can also check out the website for the same comprehensive information.
Swim Guide was created by Swim Drink Fish Canada (previously a project of the Lake Ontario Waterkeeper), a non-profit organization based in Toronto, with the goal to ensure that 100 per cent of Canadians have access to basic data about the health of their watersheds. The group just released the first-ever Canada Beach Report, which was created in collaboration with Waterkeepers across Canada, including the Conservation Council, Fundy Baykeeper, and Petitcodiac Watershed Alliance.
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Recommended Links
Read about the first-ever Canada Beach report, here.
Learn about the threats facing New Brunswick watersheds, here.
Read more on what we need to do to protect our treasured coastlines, here.