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 our Brochure Sept 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.
Twenty-seven organizations support three OHI recs on the PPS
We extend our deep appreciation to colleagues in environmental stewardship organizations for stellar work on the PPS. Twenty-seven supported our submission based on three high-level recommendations for a tapestry of sustainable planning, founded in watershed...
read moreOHI 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...
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