World Water Monitoring Challenge™ is an international 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.
In 2011, approximately 340,000 people in 77 countries monitored their local waterways. We challenge you to test the quality of your waterways, share your findings, and protect our most precious resource!
On World Water Day, 22nd March, 2012, 335 students of Government Primary school Major Banda along with 6 teachers, 5 community activists and Mr. Rangeen Khan from BERD organization visited a stream at a distance of 500 meter to west from the school where students were divided into two groups and used the WWMD test kits for sample taking and measurement of the water temperature, turbidity, dissolved oxygen (DO) and pH. Read More
WWMC: What drew you to the program—why did you want to get involved?SK: I first learned of the World Water Monitoring Challenge (WWMC) program from Björn von Euler, our Director of Corporate Philanthropy and a WEF Board Member... As he described the WWMC program, I became intrigued with the idea of bringing water education to my local schools by providing students the opportunity to participate in a science activity that brings education to life.
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Want to see photos of water monitoring all over the world? Click here to see our photo gallery. If you want to share photos of your monitoring event, submit a blog post and include your photos!
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