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We offer ways you can Get Involved. We encourage you to Set up an Account to Share Your Data and contribute your results to our Global Surface Water Quality Database and the Global Drinking Water Database and Map that will show a broader picture of the water quality patterns in our communities, states, country, and the globe. As we grow, we will be adding other publicly-available data to this mapped database. In the near future, we hope to add information on other hazards and concerns.
You can also share this site with other water professionals, teachers, students, and citizen scientists and encourage them to set up an account and share their data as well.
Please note, your privacy is our priority. When you share your information with us you will NOT be sharing the actual data, but rather a score, or an assessment of the data. The data will not be displayed for your home or property but will be displayed by zip code, county, and state. Learn more about our Data Privacy Policy.
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One of the best ways to Get Involved is to become a Citizen Scientist and join other like-minded individuals who have a passion for protecting our shared watershed. Citizen Scientists, as individuals or groups, volunteer their time to venture out to test the streams, ponds, and lakes in their local region.
<a style="color:white;text-decoration:none;" class ="glob_bu out_bu" href="https://know-your-h2o.webflow.io/outdoor-3/become-a-citizen-scientist">Learn More</a>
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The development and deployment of affordable real-time sensors with data-logging capacity are now expanding the citizen scientist’s role not only to be a pair of eyes in the field but also to have the ability to track water quality and environmental changes spatially and temporally.
To help meet this objective, we are leveraging a tool created in 1970 for the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) of the United States to create the KnowYour H2O Water Quality Index (WQI) for Surface Water.
This tool uses nine water quality parameters that can be field-tested to develop a score from 0 to 100 for a given water body. We have updated this tool to make it more user-friendly and integrated it into our Citizen Science Global Water Quality Database & Map. This tool is at the heart of our “Outdoor” resource.
Educators, citizen scientists, and professionals throughout the world use our Water Quality Index Calculator for Surface Water.
To manage the data you or your group collect, you can Create an Account to store and map your data. We also encourage you to Share Your Data and contribute your results to our Global Water Quality Database & Map. The Map will show a broader picture of the water quality patterns in our communities, states, countries, and the world.
Our vision for this website is to be a means for a citizen scientist individual or team, not just to host and share their water quality data, but also to be a mechanism to extract information from state and federal databases and make them more accessible to the community and other citizen scientists.
Please note, your privacy is our priority. When you share your information, you will NOT be sharing the actual data but rather a score, an Index, or an assessment of the data. The data will not be displayed for your home or property but will be displayed by zip code, county, and state. Learn more about our data Privacy Policy.
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Another great way to Get Involved is to Host a Workshop. We have found that the best way to educate and inform and make positive change is with fact-based information and a grassroots approach. In most cases, this can be best accomplished by conducting activities and events on the local level by individuals within the community.
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You can also help grow the community by sharing this site with other water professionals, teachers, students, and citizen scientists. Also, please encourage them to Create an Account and Share Their Data as well.