About Waterpower Day

Waterpower Day is celebrated on June 20th, 2023. Waterpower Day was established to recognize the history and importance of waterpower in Ontario as well as the role it continues to play more than 100 years after the first waterpower facility came online. June 20th was selected for Waterpower Day in recognition of Sir Adam Beck (born June 20, 1857), a Canadian politician and waterpower advocate who founded the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.

Theme for 2023

This year’s theme for Waterpower Day is Tomorrow’s Power Today.  As early as 2030, Ontario is facing a capacity shortage. Recently, 4,000 – 5,000 MW of both new and expanded “Made-in-Ontario” waterpower has been identified, which can be built in the near term to help fill this gap. To ensure that waterpower is part of Ontario’s clean energy future, we must sustain and invest in Ontario’s existing perpetual waterpower assets today and start planning now for new developments.

Social Media Toolkit

Help celebrate Waterpower Day by sharing curated content on your social media channels on June 20th. Remember to tag us on social media and use the hashtag #WaterpowerDay. Post our ready-to-use social media messages and images, tell us what waterpower means to you, use our LinkedIn profile banners, change your Teams/Zoom background, and share the Waterpower Day video.

OWA’s Social Media Handles

Tag us on Twitter @OnWaterpower and on LinkedIn @Ontario Waterpower Association.

Suggested Hashtags: #WaterpowerDay #TomorrowsPowerToday

Social Media Messages

  • Happy #WaterpowerDay! As early as 2030, Ontario is facing a capacity shortage. Recently, 4,000 – 5,000 MW of both new and expanded “Made-in-Ontario” waterpower has been identified, which can be built in the near term to help fill this gap. It’s time to secure Tomorrow’s Power Today. https://bit.ly/3JJgDvO
  • Today is #WaterpowerDay! Did you know that investments in waterpower development provide significant local, regional, and provincial socio-economic benefits for communities? In fact, 75% of capital expenditures and 90% of lifetime operational expenditures of a waterpower development will be spent in Ontario. It’s time to invest in and build Tomorrow’s Power Today! https://bit.ly/3JJgDvO
  • New “Made-in-Ontario” waterpower projects have lasting economic and social benefits for Indigenous communities and municipalities and enable other significant regional economic benefits. It’s time to start planning for Tomorrow’s Power Today! https://bit.ly/3JJgDvO
  • Happy #WaterpowerDay, everyone! We’re proud to be a supporter of Made-in-Ontario Waterpower and recognize the tremendous benefits it brings to our province. Not only does waterpower provide affordable, reliable, and sustainable electricity to our grid, but it
    also has significant economic and environmental benefits. Let’s celebrate the power of water and its contribution to Ontario’s future. Together, let’s secure Tomorrow’s Power Today. https://bit.ly/3lVWO93
  • Waterpower was responsible for the #electrification of #Ontario and is the energy engine that built the province’s original economic prosperity. Celebrate #WaterpowerDay on June 20th: https://bit.ly/3JJgDvO 
  • Happy #WaterpowerDay! Learn about waterpower facilities in Ontario and how they support local communities by watching this video: https://bit.ly/38DSf0b 

Social Media Graphics

View all graphics here or click on an image below to download:

 

 

Teams/Zoom Background

Learn how to change your Teams background here. When you upload the background, the text will appear flipped to you, but others in your meeting will see it correctly.

LinkedIn Profile Banner

Customize your LinkedIn profile picture with a pre-designed banner. Simply upload your headshot into the Canva template here.

Share our “Celebrate Waterpower Day” Video

Link to download the video: http://ow.ly/8iNv50F8edn  Youtube Link: https://bit.ly/38DSf0b

Add a Calendar Reminder

Don’t forget about Waterpower Day, download a calendar reminder here.

Questions?

Contact Jan Fonseca, Community/Industry Outreach and Media Coordinator jfonseca@owa.ca

 

Waterpower Benefits

Waterpower is the energy engine that built the province’s original economic prosperity and has been providing affordable, reliable, sustainable electricity for more than a century.

In addition, waterpower offers countless ancillary benefits. As a form of renewable energy, waterpower generation has minimal impact on the environment, while dams located at waterpower facilities assist in flood mitigation, water level stability for recreation, flow maintenance for dilution or habitat protection, and erosion control.

Embedded in dozens of villages, towns, Indigenous communities and cities across Ontario, and offering benefits for all, waterpower truly is the original community power.

Waterpower Day

Waterpower Day was established to recognize the history and importance of waterpower in Ontario as well as the role it continues to play more than 100 years after the first waterpower facility came online.

June 20th was selected for Waterpower Day in recognition of Sir Adam Beck (born June 20, 1857), a Canadian politician and waterpower advocate who founded the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario and promoted “Power at Cost”.

 In countless towns and cities across the province, the very identity of the community is inextricably linked with the generation of electricity from falling water. That’s something worth celebrating.

Waterpower Champions

Waterpower is the original community power – embedded in dozens of villages, towns, Indigenous communities and cities across Ontario. The OWA invites communities to become Waterpower Champions and to get involved in supporting community waterpower. Below is a list of our current Champions. Learn more.