Swim Guide

E. Coli and Enterococcus Levels? Check current water quality conditions at over 10,000 beaches, lakes, rivers, and swimming holes with Swim Guide.

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What is Swim Guide?

Swim Guide is a beach and recreational water information service that connects millions of people local waters each year.

With both its web platform and mobile app, Swim Guide makes it easy for you to connect with water by helping you find places to go, and learn the water quality conditions before diving in.

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Three reasons you need Swim Guide

  1. Find nearby beaches

  2. Check if a beach is clean enough to swim today

  3. Connect with people protecting your favourite beaches

 

Be part of the most popular beach information service in the world. Join over 10 million Swim Guide users and find the beach that’s just right for you

Nearly two thirds of Canadians head off to a beach each year only to find it is closed.  There are 90 million recreational water illnesses in the USA per year.

Don’t be a statistic.

 

Get started with Swim Guide

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Step 2: Find a beach

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Step 3: Get ready to explore

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On every Swim Guide beach page, you will also find an integrated map and weather updates. You’ll have access to customized information relevant to your particular beach, such as amenities, lifeguards, how to get there, and where to park.

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Find a beach in 11 countries:

Swim Guide has beaches in Canada, USA, Mexico (Baja California), the Bahamas, Ireland, France, Denmark, New Zealand, Australia, Costa Rica, and Kenya.

Learn more about the Swim Guide Affiliates program

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The Royal Bank of Canada is a premier partner of Swim Drink Fish through their ‘Tech for Nature’ program and the RBC Foundation. With RBC’s support, Swim Guide has been able to expand its capacity and develop new tools on its platforms, including pollution reporting tools, new beach submission tools, and new beach navigation features. Read more about Swim Drink Fish’s partnership with RBC.

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We want to better help you understand sewage issues, to better help you get into the water more often, where you know it's okay to do so. This is what we call water literacy. It's one of the initial steps in helping you become a community advocate in supporting swimmable, drinkable, fishable water for everyone

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Swim Guide’s largest-ever Affiliate program is providing you with more recreational water quality data than ever before. Swim Guide shares beach water quality information for over 8,000 beaches in 11 countries thanks to the 100 Swim Guide Affiliates. 

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As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, people online and in the Swim Drink Fish network have hundreds of questions about if/ where/ how they can safely turn to nature. Our team has been working around the clock to pull together information to help you connect with nature and manage your anxieties during these challenging times.

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Get instant, up-to-date information for over 800 beaches in Canada and the US with new Swim Guide app. First-of-its-kind app uses 70 government sources to help users source the closest beaches and cleanest waters – and how to get there.

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