World Water Monitoring Day is an international environmental education and outreach program that builds public awareness and involvement in protecting water resources around the world by engaging citizens to conduct basic monitoring of their local water bodies.

An easy-to-use test kit enables everyone from children to adults to sample local water bodies for a core set of water quality parameters including temperature, acidity, clarity (turbidity) and dissolved oxygen.

Results are shared with participating communities around the globe through the World Water Monitoring Day website.

The coordinators of WWMD, the Water Environment Federation and the International Water Association, plan to expand participation to one million people in 100 countries by 2012.

To learn more, visit the World Water Monitoring Day website.

8/29/2008