World Water Monitoring Challenge
As part of the global effort to assess and improve water quality and raise awareness of water quality issues in San Diego and around the world, San Diego Coastkeeper along with Sister Schools of San Diego hosted the 10th Annual World Water Monitoring Day. The event was held on October 28, 2011 at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Students participated from San Diego and Tijuana and learned about water chemistry, bioassessment, impacts of water quality to our Areas of Special Biological Significance, preventing urban runoff and marine wildlife.With our partners San Diego Stream Team, San Diego River Park Foundation, I Love a Clean San Diego, Birch Aquarium and San Diego Office of Education.
While October 28 was the largest celebration of World Water Monitoring Day in San Diego, schools countywide monitored their local waterways through their schools as part of the World Water Monitoring Program, now called the World Water Monitoring Challenge, which took place between March 22 – December 10, 2011. For more information on the World Water Monitoring Challenge 2012 for schools and teachers to participate in the entire monitoring season, check out the San Diego Citizen Water Monitoring Consortium website.
