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Earthwatch FreshWater Watch

Beneficiaries

  • The General Public / Mankind

    Creating connections between communities and their local freshwater body by acting as stewards for the natural environment, measuring and monitoring water quality

  • Reach of your work

    We want to engage 100,000 people by 2030

ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION

FreshWater Watch (FWW) is a global project which enables communities to monitor, protect and restore their local water resources. FWW empowers communities to become citizen scientists by providing the tools and expertise needed to identify harmful pollutants, collect evidence and track this data over time. Your funding can support a new community group with water testing kits, platform access and our data analysis to improve their local river, lake or stream.

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BENEFICIARIES REACHED ANNUALLY

1500

We aim to create 50 community groups (c.30 people) in 2022

SIZE OF PROJECT PER ANNUM

£300,000.00

TIMELINE

Apr 2022 Onwards

Activity goals

Enable communities to collect evidence of water pollution

Engage communities to build a greater understanding of their local freshwater

Empower community groups to take action to improve the health of a chosen waterbody

Activity Actions

  • Taking regular measurements of waterbodies/ monitoring water quality through regular testing

  • Recording data on our FWW app and online platform

  • Training citizen scientists with our video resources

  • Analysing global trends with our scientists

Activity details
GEOGRAPHIC REACH

Global

IMPACT REPORTING

Bi-annually

March 2021

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
UN SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation UN SDG 13: Climate Action UN SDG 14: Life Below Water
How we monitor the quality and results of our work

We send out surveys to community group leaders to monitor their progress and satisfaction

WHO IS ALREADY FUNDING THE PROJECT?

Trusts and foundations

Currently seeking funding from a variety of trusts and foundations