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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| cfastie | "That's a great idea to use rice to make the bottle non-compressible. It can also keep your payload dry if a little water leaks in. For the testing ..." | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "i've tried heat shrink tubing in other projects-- I don't find that it provides a perfect seal and it has difficulty sticking to glues since its us..." | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| amysoyka | "Have you tried using heat shrink wrap yet as a sealant? Electrical tape also works as shrink wrap - just apply some stream/heat to it and it tight..." | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "Hi Everyone Just thought I should post a progress update on the Cave Pearl Project. We finished off 2014 with a challenging field trip that had so..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| pswigert | "Hi! I really enjoyed this thread and seeing everyone's thoughts and responses to the question. @WhiteRabbit , I was wondering if you have any updat..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "I will be attending! " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| stevie | "I will be attending! " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| gracecagle | "I will be attending! " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| geraldmc | "I will be attending! " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| dzonki | "its good thing for city " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| amysoyka | "Thanks for that map. I hadn't seen that one before. I will add it to my collection. I agree with your sentiments on reading the landscape. As I s..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| eymund | "Thanks for the research details Amy ! Very useful. Learning to "read the landscape" is fascinating. The clues are all around us. Here's another..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| amysoyka | "Here - I started mapping out my old hometown & its waterways: mapknitter.org/map/view/cromernorfolkuk You should be able to see for yourself -..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| amysoyka | "That is some really useful/interesting stuff your revealing there! Interestingly enough I know a fair bit about this from personal experience. I ..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| stevie | "neat! " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| walkerjeffd | "Wow, that's crazy! Definitely would not have thought of doing that with my data! " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| geraldmc | "awesome! " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "thanks for putting in a good note on bioindicators! I love benthic macroinvertebrates-- I think its the most clever way to monitor water quality. " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "It's been a while so I thought I would post a project update to Public Lab 1) We had another successful fieldwork season, marking the deployment o..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| Bob | "Here are the links: http://publiclab.org/notes/caseyrcampbell327/09-29-2014/bridget-casey-s-water-sample-locations https://www.youtube.com/watch?..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Oh and -- yes, I'll be going to the barnraising -- excited to meet up there! " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Hey Greg -- neat ideas! Re: compiling errors -- just to make double-sure: are you using the version of the RTC library linked to here: https://gi..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| gbathree | "I used micro SD when I started out also, but for our applications it just was too slow. However, we aren't trying to take lots of measurements ove..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Hey Greg, Wow, this is amazing! Super cool to see you forging ahead with this. My impression is that what's going on here is that the basic util..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago |