World Water Monitoring Day
On October 18th, citizens of the global community are asked to join in gathering information about our water. Four key indicators of water quality are collected: temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, and turbidity. URL is http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.org
When you go to the website it tells you how to order water testing kits for 50 students and more information about how the program works.
Further resources can be found on www.globe.gov
The GLOBE program is a hands-on, primary and secondary school-based education and science program. Teacher guides, videos, and materials to help learn scientific methods for collecting data. Also reporting of data on this site is extensive. Useful in building curriculum in connection with the water monitoring day.
| Who: | Americas Clean Water Foundation is the organizing group. Sponsors are public and private organizations such as: US Dept of Agriculture, US EPA, US Geological Survey, Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation, Georgia Pacific Foundation and many others. |
| What: | .org. Primarily and educational and community awareness site. |
| Where: | Information is collected from participants to the site. |
| When: | Nov 2005 most recent update |
| Why: | Allows for world wide participation. |
| You: | Carole Iacovelli |
| Geography: | Global |
| Type: | Data |
| Educational: | 1 |