World Water Week continues until August 28, 2025

A photo showing rain garden and rain barrel.

Protect Lake Huron, on World Water Week, and every week of the year

World Water Week continues until Thursday, August 28, 2025.

We need your help, protecting and enhancing Lake Huron, during #WorldWaterWeek and every week.

World Water Week addresses issues facing seas and oceans but also issues facing freshwater sources such as the Great Lakes.

What are some positive actions you can take, at home and work, this World Water Week?

• Plant trees. You may donate to tree planting or buy trees through native tree sales or order trees through fall tree order programs. Talk to your local conservation organization about tree orders in your local watershed.
• Use rain barrels and plant rain gardens. Check out this short short video reel of pollinators enjoying a rain garden in Hensall, Ontario.
• Reduce your greenhouse gas emissions and offset your GHGs. One way you can help with adaptation to weather variability and a changing climate is by counter-balancing or compensating for your greenhouse gases, produced through travel and home energy use, by donating to have trees planted to capture the equivalent amount of carbon. Watch this short video reel about the Footprints to Forests program.
• Protect municipal drinking water sources. Take positive actions, at home and work, to prevent contaminants from reaching our drinking water sources. Properly dispose of household hazardous waste; use fewer chemicals; store them better; find alternatives to harmful chemcials. Watch this short one-minute animated video to learn about work to help keep Ontario's drinking water safe and clean through the first barrier of protection, drinking water source protection.

The Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) organizes World Water Week each year.

The focus of World Water Week 2025 is the theme of water for climate action.

Related themes include loss of diverse species, degradation of land and water, and the need to mitigate and adapt to extreme weather and our changing climate.

Learn more:

• World Water Week 2025