Here’s a fun activity which will have you, and your kids, friends and community splashing, learning about your local water courses, and contributing to knowledge.
World Water Monitoring Day is September 18th, 2009, but you can get involved any time from now until then. It’s fun. Just take a change of clothes for little ones!
Kits can be ordered for $13 each and come with everything you need (apart from the change of clothes and towel) to test your local creek, river, pond or lake. The tests are simple enough that they are interesting and understandable to kids in elementary school so it makes a great family, club, school, homeschool, or community project.
You register your water sample site/s and once you have your data you submit it through the World Water Monitoring Day website. I’d love each and every one of us to take part in this.
Clean water is so important and information about what is happening in each area is critical to understanding our water courses. So, sign up, receive your kit in the mail (it’s fun to get a parcel) then grab a towel, or two, and head outside. Here’s the main World Water Monitoring Day website for more information.
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This is so important! Thank you for sharing. Water monitoring can be an early warning signal of future problems. Plus, I think it would be very enlightening for us to see exactly what is in our water. Maybe it would make people think twice about doing things that damage water quality.It’s up to each of us to make healthy decisions.
Thanks for commenting Carole. Is your test kit in the mail yet?
This is very cool. We had the health department come out and test our well about 4 years ago. I’ll get this kit and see if anything’s changed. (We need a filter and haven’t gotten one yet – we have some bad thing in there from the fact that we can’t keep ground water out of the well or something.) It will be fun for the kids to do.
Janet, I’ll be interested to hear what your kids think about the water testing. The kit contains enough material to test more than one location so you can check out a local creek or pond too. Maybe you can test near some of the mountain top removal going on in your area then submit the data.