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
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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.
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Link to download the video: http://ow.ly/8iNv50F8edn Youtube Link: https://bit.ly/38DSf0b
Don’t forget about Waterpower Day, download a calendar reminder here.
Contact Jan Fonseca, Community/Industry Outreach and Media Coordinator jfonseca@owa.ca
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 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 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.