This year, Water Docs Film Festival is asking Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema to put the bottled water away at all #WaterDocs2018 screenings and events. The Water Docs team is asking that all festival attendees BYOB - bring your own bottle! - and refill them at the water fountains in the lobby of the cinema. We are also providing all of our guest speakers and panelists with reusable cups during discussions and talks. This is one way we are using the 7th Annual Water Docs Film Festival as a platform to take #ActionForWater. We hope you'll join us (a full festival pass is only $35!!) and take action for water with us.

Ontario's turtle species are in trouble - over half of our native turtle populations are endangered or threatened. And, when you learn a little bit about the unique life history and reproductive strategy of turtles, it's easy to see why this is happening.

Hello my name is Amanda Polchies I am a Lakota Sioux and Mikmaq woman and I live in Elsipogtog First Nation. I am the woman who knelt in the road with my feather and prayed in front of a line of armed RCMP officers. They were hired by SWN Resources to raid our peaceful camp on highway 134, just outside of Rexton New Brunswick. 

It might feel impossible to stand up to giant oil and gas companies who have their sights set on fracking up the land and water right beneath your feet. But the stakes for protecting the environment and clean drinking water are high - and the message we can send back to the Government through such push back is priceless. Here are 5 communities who have fought back against fracking in their home town - and won. In all cases, one recurring theme flows through each community's concern: the protection of water.

Water is Life and women are life givers, and so it is a traditionally recognized responsibility for women to take care of that which is necessary for Life.

Like any consumer-driven Holiday in the west, Valentine's Day has become an excessive and wasteful celebration. While trying to express our love for friends, family and partners, we litter the planet with non-recyclable candy wrappers, take away containers carrying the dinner we couldn't finish and stock the shelves of our landfills by purchasing unnecessary cheap trinkets that will inevitably fall apart. And the consequences of our wasteful celebrations are felt intensely by the planet's waterways.

This Valentine's Day, let's show our love for the water by making an effort to waste less. Here are some tips for a waste-free Valentine's Day: