The OWC received an Emerald Legacy Award in June 2025 for our proven record of environmental excellence! From OWC’s formation in the early 2000s, to our role now as a source of trusted information and a place for collective action, read on for highlights from the last 20+ years.
Get to know our local bumble bees! This blog is a shortened version of Jessenia Buzunis-Delagneau’s “Bumble Bees of Lethbridge, Alberta” guide, which summarizes her 2024 thesis project.
OWC is committed to ecological restoration work in this and every other version of reality. What do we mean by that? No, we’re not talking about Matrix 5: Neo’s Creek (fun as that would be); we’re talking about the OWC’s custom-made watershed stewardship virtual reality program supported by the RBC Foundation.
Overall, the study found that most well owners feel they are not susceptible to well contamination issues because they have not had any health concerns that they linked to their well water quality. Perceived susceptibility is critical, because it helps indicate how motivated people would be to test and/or treat their well.
Lethbridge is set to grow in population - so is the rest of Southern Alberta. Can we be smart about it? Guest blogger Ryan Carriere, Parks Planning Manager of the City of Lethbridge - Infrastructure Services ponders the question, and the OWC offers some insight as well. Alberta is projected to add close to 1.8 million residents over the next 25 years, reaching 6 million by 2041. Now, more than ever before, we must bring watershed vocabulary into our thoughts and actions.
