The 2012 SPLASH Festival
The 2nd annual SPLASH Festival will be taking place on Friday, August 17th and Saturday, August 18th, 2012. Save the dates! Stay tuned for details.
Did you miss out on the 2011 SPLASH Festival? Are you missing summer and wanting to reminisce about the fun time you had at the 2011 SPLASH Festival?
Great Things are Afloat on Lake Simcoe
What do you feel about water? This video about people and water was made to play in the Welcome Centre at the SPLASH Festival and at the Water Partners Innovation Evening the prior evening. Did you miss it? Check it out here!
To find out more about the Ontario Water Centre for Innovation, Research and Learning in Georgina, please visit ontariowatercentre.ca.
Be a part of Lake Simcoe's history by attending the
2nd Annual SPLASH Festival in 2012!
Every tear you cry will eventually find its way back to the ocean. That's because every drop of water on the planet is part of a cycle that moves it through rivers, lakes, the ocean and the atmosphere, in the form of gas, liquid or solid.
"Water is the driver of Nature." - Leonardo daVinci
"Water sustains all." - Thales of Miletus, 600 B.C.
"Gutta cavat lapidem" ("Dripping water hollows out a stone") - Ovid, Epistulae Ex Ponto, Book 3, no. 10, 1. 5
"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling." - Lucretius
"Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains." - Henry Ward Beecher
"The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time." - Henry David Thoreau
"Water flows humbly to the lowest level." - Lao-Tzu, Chinese philosopher (6th century B.C.)
2011 SPLASH Festival!