Virginia Water Science Center: World Water Monitoring Day 2009
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Virginia Water Monitoring Day 2009 The statewide events webpage will be updated as more events are confirmed, so check back often. World Water Monitoring Day TM (WWMD) is an international education and outreach program that builds public awareness and involvement in protecting water resources around the world by engaging citizens to conduct basic monitoring of their local water bodies. The program engages communities in monitoring the condition of local rivers, streams, estuaries, and other water bodies. WWMD is coordinated by the Water and Environment Federation (WEF) and the International Water Association (IWA) . The Virginia Water Monitoring Council encourages World Water Monitoring Day activities in Virginia. The following information and links are designed to help you better understand Water Monitoring Day in Virginia and around the world and to plan to participate in a monitoring event in a watershed near you. From the inception of WWMD in 2002 through 2005, more than 80,000 people in 50 countries participated in WWMD. In 2008 alone, 73,510 people participated in 70 countries. Although World Water Monitoring Day is officially celebrated on September 18 each year, the monitoring window has been expanded in 2009 to include March 22 (World Water Day) -- December 31. If you register your sites(s) and submit your data to the WWMD web site, your data will become part of a world-wide data set and also will be included with other data collected in Virginia in 2009 like that of past years (see below) and will be accessible at this web site when available. After you register your site(s) and plan your event, please email Gary Speiran at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) (gspeiran@usgs.gov) so that your event can be listed with other "Statewide Events" to promote greater participation in your event. Our goal is to have events in every basin in Virginia!
World Water Monitoring Days - Past Years
World Water Monitoring Day 2009World Water Monitoring Day is an international outreach program that builds public awareness and involvement in protecting water resources around the world. Held annually between September 18 and October 18, the program engages communities in monitoring the condition of local rivers, streams, estuaries and other water bodies. Since its inception in 2002, more than 80,000 people have participated in 50 countries. |