With over 8,000 beaches, keeping Swim Guide’s photos up-to-date is a monumental task. If you are interested in lending a hand, here is how you can help from the comfort of your own home. The photo submission feature and the beach image database are part of Swim Guide’s international citizen-science effort to collect data on …

Swim Guide’s parent organization, Swim Drink Fish, is thrilled to recognize the 100 Affiliate organizations joining Swim Guide for the 2020 swimming season. Swim Drink Fish published a news release July 23, 2020 recognizing the affiliates who contribute beach water quality data to the platform so that you can access the water safely this summer. …

Swim Guide was created in Toronto, Canada by Lake Ontario Waterkeeper. “Is it safe to swim in Lake Ontario?” was the most common question we received from the public. We soon discovered reliable facts and figures about current recreational water quality were hard to come by. So we started compiling our own. In 2011, the …

The #InSummerWeSwim Instagram contest, launched August 1st, is a partnership between Waterkeepers Canada and Mountain Equipment Co-op. Together, we want to see what inspires you about summer on the water! It can be your favourite beach or river, your friends swimming, or scenes from a watersport – anything at all. Winning photos will be selected …

Find your beach, Swim Guide makes it easy. The free app helps you find the closest, cleanest beach by providing the most current water quality information and directions how to get there. Swim Guide also allows you to easily share your adventure on social media with your friends and family. You can download the app …

The new version of Waterkeeper Swim Guide for iPhone has been accepted by Apple and is now available on the App Store! iPhone & iPod users, please be sure you go to your app store and update Waterkeeper Swim Guide. Waterkeeper Swim Guide 2.1 is now optimized for iOS 6 and iPhone 5 (phones with …

Today, Puget Soundkeeper announced that 56 beaches in Northwest Washington State are now available on Waterkeeper Swim Guide. By introducing Waterkeeper Swim Guide, Puget Soundkeeper is aiming not only to protect beachgoers from getting sick, but also seeks to raise public awareness about pollution threatening our rights to safe swimmable and fishable waters. “People of …

Orange County Coastkeeper and Swim Guide help beachgoers in California find the healthiest beaches:A new smartphone application can help California residents stay up to date with the area’s healthiest beaches. Orange County Coastkeeper frequently updates basic information for the area’s beaches and employs the use of water quality data from the Ocean Water Protection Program. …

Swim Guide is launched in Baldwin and Mobile counties in Alabama:It can be incredibly frustrating to drive all the way to the beach, only to find out a health advisory has been issued for the waters there. A no-swim warning can result in disappointed children … and adults. As the grownups try to find solutions …

Fraser Riverkeeper discusses Swim Guide and how it helps users:A new Swim Guide App — free from Vancouver conservation NGO Fraser Riverkeeper and Toronto-based Lake Ontario Waterkeeper — helps users locate the closest, cleanest beaches in their area. “Swim Guide is revolutionary,” says Fraser Riverkeeper executive director Lauren Hornor. “It leads people to great beaches …

Ottawa Riverkeeper announces Swim Guide:Water quality is tested daily at Ottawa’s beaches, and now that information is even easier to access anywhere and anytime. Beaches are updated in real-time as safe for swimming (green) or unsafe (red). Users can also look at the history of any beach, and even who’s taking the water samples. “We’ll …

Santa Barbara Channelkeeper launches Swim Guide in Santa Barbara:Santa Barbara Channelkeeper Executive Director Kira Redmond said the free application designates the cleanest and safest beaches in Santa Barbara. “We want to make sure the public has the information they need to protect the health of surfers and swimmers,” Redmond said. “Also, people who bring kids …