Rivers, oceans, lakes, aquifers, groundwater, stormwater, urban canals, underground streams, estuaries, and more -- we are passionate about water quality! This page will help you find resources to explore the waterbodies you care about, and connect with other people who have the same interests: ### Questions on Water Quality: [questions:water-quality] **** ## Monitoring * [Water sampling](/water-sampling) * [Water sensors](/water-sensors) * Posts on #water-monitoring * Posts on #water-testing * Posts on #reagents ## Water quality parameters Read about different water quality parameters here, including pH, nitrogen, conductivity, temperature, ORP and turbidity: * https://publiclab.org/common-water-contaminants Also see this overview of 7 ways to monitorn water quality: * https://publiclab.org/notes/anngneal/12-08-2017/7-ways-to-measure-monitor-and-evaluate-water-quality ## Groups and projects working on water quality issues: [wikis:project:water-quality] **** ## Water quality related pages [wikis:parent:water-quality] **** ## Activities [activities:water-quality]...
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| liz | "Welcome @okellomanpeter -- wonderful to read your project on water management. You've posed some big questions! Sounds like the rural people have t..." | Read more » | about 1 year ago | |||
| liz | "Network map in Little Sis by @marinaraHQ https://littlesis.org/oligrapher/7566-why-is-nys-dec-delaying-on-greenidge-air-permits " | Read more » | about 1 year ago | |||
| liz | "Hi @belkinsa it's amazing to hear from you and get a glimpse into your current work! Please keep us posted. I appreciate your tireless open science..." | Read more » | about 1 year ago | |||
| Ag8n | "The last heard, Ohio decided it was excessive levels of fertilizers that caused the problem. So, the solution was to limit when fertilizers could ..." | Read more » | about 1 year ago | |||
| marinaraHQ | "I think it would be great- really excited to work with you this coming weekend! I read over the materials you posted, I think the fishing bobs woul..." | Read more » | about 1 year ago | |||
| EdMallon | "The ones from Fisher Scientific and Thermo have notably better quality seals than no-name brand tubes. So if you are putting them somewhere swampy ..." | Read more » | about 1 year ago | |||
| bhamster | "Thanks for this update, @EdMallon! I read the full post you linked and laughed at "Pro-Minillennium Falcons." :smiley: The Falcon tube housing is n..." | Read more » | about 1 year ago | |||
| ParaBautizo | "La Palabra Christen proviene de la palabra latina Christos, lo que significa bautizar. Un niño se bautiza en agua y se le da un nuevo nombre cristi..." | Read more » | about 1 year ago | |||
| EdMallon | "This latest update was motivated by several factors but the most important ones were: (1) Our own project has grown to the point that every fieldwo..." | Read more » | about 1 year ago | |||
| liz | "What a fantastic update! It's great to hear from you @EdMallon. An underwater logger running for a year on a single coin cell battery?? COOL. Taggi..." | Read more » | about 1 year ago | |||
| liz | "I got in touch with the author of the Grist article as we know each other from civic tech days in NYC. She stated that she has continuing interest ..." | Read more » | about 1 year ago | |||
| Ag8n | "Believe it or not, during the seaon, this is on the weather segment of the local news. The local water intakes (Cleveland) are often threatened by..." | Read more » | about 1 year ago | |||
| EdMallon | " It’s been a long time since I posted, and you’d be forgiven for thinking the Cave Pearl Project was yet another victim of COVID. While the attend..." | Read more » | about 1 year ago | |||
| liz | "For detecting temperature change in waterbodies, see: thermal "fishing bob" $5 diy sensor, then you take a timelapse of its color change as it is..." | Read more » | about 1 year ago | |||
| liz | "Looks like Harmful Algae Blooms are top of the list of direct threat to public health posed by the release of hot water into Lake Seneca. Summariz..." | Read more » | about 1 year ago | |||
| eustatic | "Here;s the satellite imagery from the new Skytruth platform: alerts.skytruth.org/issue/186-nurdle-spill-bnsf-in-raceland-ida-2021 " | Read more » | about 1 year ago | |||
| normawatson | "Hii " | Read more » | about 1 year ago | |||
| belkinsa | "@Ag8n Thank you for you comments! I so didn't think of regulatory issues attached to the kits and I'm not sure if there is a difference on how the ..." | Read more » | about 1 year ago | |||
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| Ag8n | "Now, there Maybe differences in how the sample is obtained. Don't know about that. " | Read more » | about 1 year ago | |||
| Ag8n | "From a scientific point of view, yes they can. Even an aquarium test kit can often be used to test water sources. The problem is with regulatory ..." | Read more » | about 1 year ago | |||
| mauriceatkinson | "Hi I would love to build a system just like this but I am concerned that the github libraries are over 4 years old and look like they are not manin..." | Read more » | over 1 year ago | |||
| eustatic | "Skytruth has sent me at Healthy Gulf a dataset since 2012. Map:: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1PXFVRlD8sQB_tVa68uFsgfASa8xZnq_m&..." | Read more » | over 1 year ago | |||
| Ag8n | "If you are using Gc/ms, there are two common type detectors, quad detectors and ion trap detectors. I'm partial to quads. But I've had salesman t..." | Read more » | over 1 year ago |