water pollution Archives - Cottage Life

A green frog in the water

Cottage Q&A: What happened to our frog population?

Outdoors

Pollution Probe employees stand with the mayor of Barrie in front of the PixieDrone, a garbage-collecting drone near Lake Simcoe

This garbage-loving, lake-trolling drone eats plastic for breakfast…and lunch and dinner

Outdoors

foam-in-Ontario-lake-water-stopped-by-floating-boom-to-prevent-pollution

Bill 228 seeks to prevent pollution from unencapsulated polystyrene in Ontario lakes

General

The words "Beat Plastic Pollution" written in the sand

Trash-trapping Seabins are cleaning the Great Lakes

Outdoors

A common loon swimming with her loon chick

Is the Canadian loon population in danger?

Outdoors

Close-up of a person filling a glass pitcher with tap water.

Cottage Q&A: How to deal with sulphur-scented tap water

Real Estate

Teenager volunteer cleaning the beach by collecting garbage into plastic bag.

How to organize a fun and effective lake cleanup

Outdoors

Green algal blooms in Lake Erie.

7 surprising ways you may be contributing to water pollution

Outdoors

Close-up of a person wearing a blue glove holding a test tube and sampling lake water.

Who do we contact to do water safety tests on our lake?

Real Estate