It’s been an exciting year at the Vancouver Community Water Monitoring Hub. The team has been working hard to restructure and implement new technology and protocols to ensure the most accurate and up-to-date information about water quality on the West Coast.

San Francisco rang in the new year with a series of atmospheric river events that had catastrophic impacts across California.

We operate water quality monitoring hubs across the country – and it was not until recently that we began operating them as a national network where each hub’s operations are frequently reviewed to ensure that standards and procedures are being held to the same quality assurance protocols.

There are two types of people in the world: those that simply survive the winter and those that indulge in it. Believe it or not, there are a handful of people that find solace in the cold, and it’s actually easier than any of us might think to take the plunge into embracing the cold weather.