Citizen Monitoring: Educating and Engaging Citizens through Monitoring Activities
Utah Water Watch (UWW) is a water quality education and data collection program that seeks to increase awareness about the importance of water quality and promote stewardship of Utah’s aquatic resources.
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2019 Utah Water Watch Monitoring
Thank you to all the volunteers who dedicated their time towards monitoring our great state's water quality!
This year, we had 335 samples taken by 61 volunteers at 95 different sites. To see where each of these sites are located and how many times they were monitored, check out our interactive map.
Help the Utah Division of Water Quality!
Volunteers around the state have been asked to help the UDWQ collect important real-time data on the status of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in our lakes during late summer and early fall.
How you can help:
- When you visit a lake or reservoir, note absence or presence of a possible HAB
- If you suspect a bloom, contact 801-536-3123 immediately
- To help UDWQ better track all our lakes, please also use the bloomWatch app to record the presence or absence of harmful algae
For more information on how to identify and report HABs, visit our Utah Water Watch HAB page.
Updated Utah Water Watch Manual
We have been working on a new Volunteer Manual and updating our Datasheets to make monitoring easier than ever! Be sure to check out the new and improved Volunteer Manual. The manual also contains our new datasheets which makes data entry a quicker process. You can print the new datasheets by going to the Tier 1 Monitoring Instructions page. They are underneath the Photo Point Monitoring instructions.
CitSci Database
Volunteer data is entered into CitSci.org. If you have any questions about data entry or accessing old data, please contact us at waterquality@usu.edu or 435-797-2580. Also see instructions here for joining, submitting, and viewing data.