Starting in 2012, UWW has trained 1,331 citizen scientists.

Some volunteer feedback:

"It (Utah Water Watch) is interesting and fun. We have had four neighborhood children join us this year."

"I enjoy learning new things, gaining new skills, and making a difference in my community."

UPCOMING EVENTS

Citizen Monitoring: Educating and Engaging Citizens through Monitoring Activities

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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.

Become a volunteer

Monitoring Information

Calendar and Events

Features

Pack it Out Utah 2021!

Utah's second STATEWIDE trails and waterways cleanup!

You can participate in these three ways:

1) Find a local cleanup event near you.
2) Check out our map of suggested cleanup locations.
3) Collect trash in your neighborhood or a local park, trail, or waterway.

Any trash collected has a positive impact!

Visit https://bit.ly/PackItOutUtah2021 for more information about the event!

Become A Utah Water Watch Volunteer

Utah Water Watch (UWW) is a citizen water quality monitoring program. Our goal is to empower citizens to learn and share knowledge about their local watersheds and practice good stewardship. Data collected is shared in a public database and with local water managers.
Volunteer sampling water

Utah Water Watch is a free program and is open to volunteers of all ages.

Volunteering is a fun way to learn more about water quality and help protect lakes and streams in Utah.

There are 3 steps you need to take in order to become a volunteer:

1.Fill out the volunteer registration form.

2. Attend a workshop and become certified (click the green button above to register for this specific training).

3. Work with the coordinator to choose a site to monitor.

For more information please visit this website.

Through Watershed Eyes Podcast

Love podcasts? Love learning about Watersheds? Utah State's Instead podcast features one of our team members on an episode all about Watersheds! This podcast provides a lot of good information about watersheds, water quality, HABs, and more.

To listen, use the following link and scroll to

Episode 7 -"Through Watershed Eyes, with Dr. Nancy Mesner."

https://research.usu.edu/instead

Utah Drought Information System

The Utah Drought Information System is a user-interactive webpage developed from a BOR WaterSMART project that aims at providing historical and forecast drought-related data to state professionals. This great database can be found at the Utah Climate Center at Utah State University's website.

Click the image to visit the Utah Climate Center's Drought Information System.

Gotta Go Utah!

GottaGoUtah.org was created to give tips on how to properly dispose of your waste when you gotta go in the outdoors. Help keep our beautiful Utah trails and landscapes stay clean and safe by doing your part.

Visit our page to learn when you need to dig a cat hole, pack out your waste or find a dump station on your next trip.

Follow on Facebook or Instagram to stay updated!

Small Farm Neighbor

Smallfarmneighbor.org was created to give water quality tips and tricks to keep your small farms healthy and your neighbors happy.

Follow on Facebook or Instagram to stay updated!

Click on the picture to find out how small farmers and backyard gardeners can protect our waterways.

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.