Volunteer

Get Involved with Swim Drink Fish!

Most people believe our waters should be protected but don’t know where or how to start.

If you love your waters and want to do your part in protecting them, volunteering with Swim Drink Fish is a great option! Whether you want to help ensure beaches are clean, accessible, and eco-friendly, contribute to important water quality data, or share invaluable information with your community alongside like-minded peers, we’re here to make it happen.

  • Join us in Toronto, Vancouver or Edmonton!

    Are you looking for an opportunity to learn more about your local waters and support protecting and restoring the water in your community?

    Swim Drink Fish’s community water monitoring hubs offer a variety of volunteer opportunities to become involved and dive deeper in discovering and safeguarding your community’s waterways.

    From community science and outreach to behind-the scenes projects, our volunteers help to collect and share important information about our waterways and build a community of people who are connected to and invested in the health of our waters. It takes a community to protect our water!

    Become a water monitoring hub volunteer at one of our hubs across Canada. Scroll down to learn about the volunteer roles available at each of our hub locations.

    Learn more about our water monitoring hubs here.

  • We’re always looking for volunteers to help improve Swim Guide! Whether it’s taking photos, reporting pollution or updating site information, we’d love your help! We are recruiting volunteers on a rolling basis to help out virtually with Swim Guide. Sign up below and we’ll be in touch with ways you can help.

    Check out Swim Guide here

  • By sharing our Watermark stories we can help others and ourselves recognize those connections we have to our shared waters.

    Share your Watermark here!

  • Contribute to your community's knowledge of local beaches to help target improvement and conservation opportunities. Beach Guide surveys can be done anytime you are at the beach, with three options:

    1. The Beach Goer (10 minutes)

    2. The Beach Knower (10-45 minutes)

    3. The Beach Expert (45+ minutes)

    Next time you are at this beach, follow this link to collect a survey!

  • Coming soon!

  • We believe a connected and informed community of Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River advocates can make a difference. Imagine the power of one million people with a shared goal to protect and restore the lands and waters of the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem. Our collective voices are strong.

    We’d like to connect with people across all political boundaries in this vast and diverse watershed.

    Are you working on a project or initiative in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region? Let us know! By joining Biinaagami, you signal that it’s important to invest in protecting the waters that surround and sustain us. You also have an opportunity to inspire others and showcase your story, project, organization or business. We will invite others to follow your work so that together we can transform local action into collective impact!

    Learn more here.

Opportunities in Vancouver

  • The Community-Led Site program provides the tools and resources necessary for community members to monitor their own sites!

  • Work with us weekly in the field to collect water samples, record environmental observations, and collect baseline water quality information.

  • Join the Swim Drink Fish community in cleaning up Vancouvers shoreline. Periodic opportunities are available.

  • We are looking for volunteers to help survey park-goers at New Brighton Park, Harbour Green Park (Coal Harbour), and Waterfront Park (North Vancouver)!

Opportunities in Toronto

  • The Community-Led Site program provides the tools and resources necessary for community members to monitor their own sites!

  • Work with us weekly in the field to collect water samples, record environmental observations, and collect baseline water quality information.

  • Help Swim Drink Fish collect Watermarks by conducting a Watermark Drive in your community.

Opportunities in Edmonton

  • Work with us weekly in the field to collect water samples, record environmental observations, and collect baseline water quality information.