Equipping communities in data-deficient areas

10.25976/aqpr-e356

Water Rangers through the help of WWF and Loblaw is building water quality testing capacity in 25 data deficient sub-watersheds! We’re equipping communities with inexpensive citizen science testkits, providing online training, and connecting them to a growing network of communities participating in citizen monitoring. This program is a catalyst for further testing in their regions, and our dream is that it will provoke meaningful progress toward protecting freshwater. Using equipment that allow testers to understand basic water health parameters such as temperature, clarity, pH, hardness, alkalinity, dissolved oxygen and conductivity, we’ll help them create baseline data and educate their communities on the value of long-term monitoring, all while giving them tools to manage it long-term.

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Licence: Open Data Commons Attribution License 1.0

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Metadata Reference Date(s) December 10, 2023 (Creation)
December 10, 2023 (Revision)
Data Reference Date(s) September 11, 2020 (Publication)
December 10, 2023 (Revision)
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Responsible Party 1
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Water Rangers
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Responsible Party 2
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Citizen scientists using the Water Rangers testkit
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Contributor
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info@waterrangers.ca
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Ocean Variables Other
Scope Dataset
Status On Going
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North Bounding Latitude 62.234664
South Bounding Latitude 42.884111
East Bounding Longitude -52.713868
West Bounding Longitude -136.041021
Temporal Extent
Begin
2018-06-29
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2023-09-24
Default Locale English
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https://doi.org/10.25976/aqpr-e356
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Included in Data Catalogue 1
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DataStream
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DataStream is an open access platform for water quality data
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https://datastream.org
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CIOOS Pacific
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Home of Canada's Pacific Ocean Data
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https://catalogue.pac-dev1.cioos.org