Would you like to understand more about the health of your local waterway?

Learning by doing is often the best way. The Waterwatch program offers plenty of ways that your group or school can get involved in monitoring the health of your environment and take part in managing some of the problems.

The Waterwatch program offers community groups and schools:

• A comprehensive water quality monitoring system to suit your group's needs and interests.
• Use of an on-line water quality database for entering test results, and viewing other water quality information.
• The opportunity to be part of a national network of community water quality monitoring groups.
• A group space on the regional notebook of the Waterwatch web site.
• Many links to curriculum requirements for schools
• A way to have fun with friends, family and others! 

The benefits of monitoring include:

• Finding out how good or bad the health of your waterway is.
• Understanding what the problems are and what needs to be done.
• Measuring change in the health of your waterway over time.
• Showing the benefits of your actions such as tree planting, pollution reduction.
• Gathering information to show others the problems that are occurring
• Encouraging greater community awareness of environmental problems.

The Waterwatch program can tailor a package of equipment and methods that suits your site and issue of interest, and your preferred frequency and type of testing.