Rouge River	~	West Rouge Junior Public School
	Highland Creek	~	St. Margaret Public School
	Taylor Massey Creek	~	Samuel Hearne Senior Public School
	Don River	~	Nelson Mandela Public School
	Humber River	~	Park Lawn Junior Middle School
	Etobicoke Creek	~	James S. Bell Junior Middle School

Each one of the more than 160 pieces of art in this papier-mâché sculpture mosaic represents one element of Lake Ontario’s cultural, ecological, and economic fabric. Together, they represent the diversity, beauty, and potential of our community.
   The mosaic was produced in workshops with multi-age-group members from Toronto, and grade 6, 7, and 8 students, from six elementary schools close to the watershed of Toronto’s rivers.
   A watershed consists of all the land and waterways that drain into the same body of water. All the places between the Lake Ontario shoreline and the Oak Ridges Moraine are part of the Toronto watershed. Each waterway, large and small, is home for fish, birds, insects, and plants. This makes them essential parts of our neighbourhood.
   The project represents an aquatic ecosystem that intimately sustains its participants. About 70% of our body mass is water, and in Toronto our drinking water is drawn from Lake Ontario, so the “sweetwater seas” are a large part of our bodies.
   The Lake Ontario Water Project affirms that the lake that supports this city is beautiful and worth protecting from pollution and depletion.