Rivers, oceans, lakes, aquifers, groundwater, stormwater, urban canals, underground streams, estuaries, and more -- we are passionate about water quality! This page will help you find resources to explore the waterbodies you care about, and connect with other people who have the same interests: ### Questions on Water Quality: [questions:water-quality] **** ## Monitoring * [Water sampling](/water-sampling) * [Water sensors](/water-sensors) * Posts on #water-monitoring * Posts on #water-testing * Posts on #reagents ## Water quality parameters Read about different water quality parameters here, including pH, nitrogen, conductivity, temperature, ORP and turbidity: * https://publiclab.org/common-water-contaminants Also see this overview of 7 ways to monitorn water quality: * https://publiclab.org/notes/anngneal/12-08-2017/7-ways-to-measure-monitor-and-evaluate-water-quality ## Groups and projects working on water quality issues: [wikis:project:water-quality] **** ## Water quality related pages [wikis:parent:water-quality] **** ## Activities [activities:water-quality]...
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| smmontgom | "@xuhulk awesome! Bedstuy and LES are 2 likely hotspots for lead. You can sign up to be a tester at https://www.citizenspring.org/ Corlears Hook Par..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| xuhulk | "I'm based in Bed-Stuy and the Lower East Side, and I'm very interested! " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| imvec | "UPDATE We've recently noticed that the database is only downlodeable creating a user so, we've included a direct link to the latest database in the..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "nice " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| stevie | "Just finished a map! https://mapknitter.org/embed/bayou-bienvenue--2 " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| read_holman | "@liz Hi there -- were you the person who mentioned a water monitoring effort with a college in Queens? Wondering if that'd be a group that would be..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "That's very tempting, but I'm not sure I can add another thing to the plate this year. I still have several important new features to add to the co..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| zengirl2 | "This is a great write-up on this activity. As @warren mentioned I did this activity at MakerFaire with a very broad age range 6-60. Because I was b..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "Love this! Super :smiley: Our breadboards didn't have nice Vcc or Ground sections like those pictured in the activity, so we decided to use one ro..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| Bronwen | "Hi @EdMallon -- this is so great! I was just scrolling through all of the updates on here, and was wondering if you had any interest in turning thi..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| MadTinker | "Just a quick update on the status of this project. Willow Creek is going through a couple of serious events. First, the stretch of the stream where..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "This is a follow-up to our post about using Nokia 5110 screens on three unused analog lines with shift-out. That saved me from messing with the h..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| stevie | "Yes! here's the report back on the event https://publiclab.org/notes/Delaney/05-04-2018/water-quality-testing-at-turkey-creek " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| belkinsa | "Is the report ready? " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| liz | " " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| liz | "Correction! I said "i have never seen so many fish jumping simultaneously"! " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| liz | "Hi @Ag8n , does "di water" mean distilled water? Also, i see @warren asked a sort of follow-up that seems to be about storing pH strips and keeping..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| read_holman | "Thanks @Ag8n - Really appreciate the time you spent typing all of this out. I'm going to try to convert your comments into the spreadsheet format, ..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "As for what method can do soil, paint, water, etc. Edxrf has a big problem with water. Water absorbs xrays. You can get around this by evaporati..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "As for what method can do soil, paint, water, etc. Edxrf has a big problem with water. Water absorbs xrays. You can get around this by evaporati..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "As for difficulty: Worst is ICP- ME ICP-OES GFAA AS EDXRF Wet chemical Easiest Many of the wet chemical methods can only detect heavy metals as le..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "Read- ICP-MS is the premier method.no doubt. But you pay for it. I'm second place is ICP-OES (ICP-optical emission spectrometry). Pretty much th..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| read_holman | "Thanks :) Some bumps here as I learn the quirks of the platform... So I just did delete a couple of the comments to clean up this thread. One of t..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| liz | "I believe you can delete your own duplicate comments, if not, however, and if you'd like me to (as site admin) just let me know and i can clean thi..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago |