Working to Protect Ontario’s Headwaters, Watersheds, and Natural Heritage
Established in 2003, the Ontario Headwaters Institute is a registered charity working to protect Ontario’s headwaters, natural heritage, watersheds, and receiving waters such as the Great Lakes.
Click to see the OHI Brochure Feb 2019
Click to view a four minute collage of Watershed Portraits through the four seasons.
Homepage Hotlinks
See the report of the WaterScape survey on sustainable planning.
Read our core document about the value of headwaters – Protecting Ontario’s Headwaters.
OHI comments on draft Canada-Ontario Agreement on the Great Lakes
The OHI has made comments on the draft new COA. Our two main comments are entwined and focus on a key gap that we perceive in the existing agreement: the absence of a systems-based framework to protect the Great Lakes Ecosystem, creating an unbalanced focus on the...
read moreJuly 1: OHI adds 8 submissions
Happy Canada Day. We've spent the morning getting caught up. Since January 1, we've been toooo busy to keep our submissions page up-to-date, as the provincial government works hard to reduce environmental protection. We've addressed that today by adding 8 submissions,...
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