publications

LWF has requested that Minister Mike Moyes direct the Clean Environment Commission to review the environmental sustainability of Manitoba's hog industry and report on progress towards recommendations made in 2007.

Our Spring and Summer 2025 newsletter celebrates LWF's 20th anniversary, shares an update from the Lake Winnipeg Community-Based Monitoring Network, and shows how to support positive change for Lake Winnipeg through our summer events!

Our annual report highlights the progress we’ve made towards the achieving the membership, advocacy, evidence and resilience goals of our 2023 - 2027 strategic plan.

Presenting to the Standing Policy Committee on Water, Waste and Environment, we express our concern over the 80% cost increase for biological nutrient removal facilities at Winnipeg's North End Water Pollution Control Centre (NEWPCC). As councillors work to secure funding for this project, we urge City Council to optimize the chemical phosphorus reduction solution already in place at NEWPCC, in order to achieve phosphorus compliance.

Our Fall & Winter 2024 newsletter celebrates a new phosphorus reduction system at Winnipeg's north end sewage treatment plant, shares an update on the new Canada Water Agency, and shows how community support drives positive change for Lake Winnipeg!

The Lake Winnipeg Community-Based Monitoring Network (LWCBMN) 2020-2022 Results shares maps of phosphorus hotspots from 2020, 2021 and 2022. Pivoting quickly to adapt to COVID-19 health protections, LWCBMN was able to continue collecting water samples throughout the pandemic, building our long-term phosphorus data set. With seven years of data now in hand, LWCBMN points the way to evidence-based solutions for Lake Winnipeg.

Submitted to Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), our policy brief identifies how ECCC’s regional water programs, including the Lake Winnipeg Basin Program, are perfectly positioned to link community concerns and federal policy priorities. We highlight how phosphorus data generated by the Lake Winnipeg Community-Based Monitoring Network (LWCBMN) can support regional decision-making and funding allocation, and urge any renewed federal program to explicitly recognize the value of LWCBMN data in order to effectively complete the data-to-impact cycle.

Our Spring & Summer 2024 special-edition newsletter focuses on the Lake Winnipeg Community-Based Monitoring Network, LWF’s long-term phosphorus monitoring program. Discover how we are translating citizen science into freshwater solutions!

Our Year Three report card reviews progress since 2020, and highlights urgent next steps the federal government must take to protect and restore Lake Winnipeg’s water quality and ecosystem health, and to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

Our annual report highlights the progress we’ve made towards the achieving the membership, advocacy, evidence and resilience goals of our 2023 - 2027 strategic plan.