What is OGWA?
The Ottawa-Gatineau Watershed Atlas (OGWA) is a community-based water information hub. OGWA combines information from many different sources and paints a holistic picture of the 5 subwatersheds.
OGWA News
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8 Jul 2010 OGWA is looking for volunteers! We have openings in the following areas: web design, cartographic design, and outreach. Contact us if you are interested in helping out. 6 Jan 2010 OGWA staff wishes you a happy New Year! It is now possible to integrate any OGWA map within your website! Contact us to find out how. 27 Nov 2009 Water quality data will soon be available in real-time! We are presently working with the South Nation Conservation Authority and le Comité du Bassin Versant de la rivière Gatineau to bring the most recent and real-time water quality data to OGWA maps. |
A comprehensive guide to all things water. Read about the importance of water in your community, where it comes from, how it is impacted, who manages it and how you can protect it. Link from this information to facts and data on the water where you live.
We all live in a watershed - a watershed is an area of land that is drained by a river and its tributaries into a particular body of water such as a pond, lake or ocean. Do you know which watershed you live in? Find out by clicking here.
Ottawa River Watershed (link)
Explore the watershed where you live with our interactive maps, graphs and images. OGWA brings together data from both sides of the Ottawa River so that we can learn about and protect the water where we live at the watershed level. Click on any map image within the website to open up the interactive OGWA maps.