Love Your Lakes

BREAKING NEWS! - Great North Swim Postponed due to Blue-Green Algae

This year's Great North Swim has been postponed due to the prevalence of Blue-Green Algae in Windermere. Love Your Lakes provides useful information about how to prevent the growth of this dangerous algae, please explore our site to find out how you can help look after our lakes.

Download our Advice sheet on Blue-Green Algae to learn about the health implications and what you should do if you spot an algal bloom...

 Blue Green Algae: Advice for Lake Users

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What's it all about?

Love your Lakes is working to improve water quality in Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite Lake. We'll be helping local businesses, residents and visitors to take simple steps to help. By reducing the amount of damaging phosphates going into the lakes from washing machine and dishwashing detergents we can all do our bit to protect the future of one of Lakeland's most popular and beautiful destinations.

What we'll be doing

Throughout 2010 the Love your Lakes team will be:

• Raising awareness of the problems facing the lakes with businesses, visitors and local communities.
• Working with local communities and taking part in local events.
• Making visitors aware of the issue before they book so they can do their bit too.
• Providing information and resources for businesses to help them help their visitors.
• Providing visits from our Sustainable Tourism staff to tourism businesses to help them identify ways of reducing the use of phosphates.
• Working with suppliers and local retailers to source and develop phosphate-free products.

There'll be plenty of opportunities throughout the year to learn about the campaign and get involved in helping to Love the Lakes!

Give it a go

You can do your bit to reduce the amount of phosphates getting into the lakes.

 Click here for a list of Phosphate-free products you can try

Love your Lakes is a Bassenthwaite Reflections project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and delivered by Nurture Lakeland.