WaterWatch
WaterWatch is a community water monitoring program focused on monitoring waterway condition and improving environmental education and awareness. It brings together schools, community, Landcare groups, landowners, councils, water managers and individuals to test the quality of their local stream or waterway so action can be taken to maintain or improve the water quality.
Goulburn Broken WaterWatch provides free training, support and equipment for individuals and groups interested in monitoring water quality in our region’s rivers, streams and wetlands.
WaterWatch aims to give the community better knowledge about water issues and to encourage water quality monitoring groups to undertake constructive action.
Volunteers with a passion for the environment provide water quality data from waterways across Victoria. The data is used to monitor waterway condition and assess whether change (positive or negative) is occurring.
All data collected is publicly available at vic.waterwatch.org.au.
Along with water quality monitoring, individuals and groups also evaluate habitat, survey aquatic macro-invertebrates (waterbugs) and photograph sites to evaluate how waterway condition is changing.
WaterWatch Victoria has successfully engaged people with their local rivers since 1993, raising awareness about river health and waterway management.