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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| read_holman | "Huh... Sorry about the duplicate questions. The page stalled on me and I didn't realize that the first one posted. (edit: I just deleted said dupli..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| liz | "Hey Read, your page is looking great! The new tags look good, and i added another one parent:lead so that people can kind of navigate through this ..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| read_holman | "Hi @liz -- Cool. The aggregate page (for lack of a better word) is super helpful! Seeing all the related content / questions now and will check tho..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| read_holman | "Awesome. Thanks " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| liz | "I took my own advice and created publiclab.org/lead, linking to the Lead Data Collaborative at the top " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "I'd be happy to help. Give me some time to look it over. I've worked extensively with EDXRF, but mostly the desktop (read R&D) variety. Only..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| read_holman | "@Ag8n I'd love to pick your brain about the technologies. I am familiar with the general trends, but only bc I've read about them, have worked with..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| liz | "Excited that you might create a wiki page for "lead" ! You can create it by clicking the button on https://publiclab.org/tag/lead that says "Add on..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| stevie | "hi @tmclean1 !! I think I remember you saying these weren't algae bloom lines in the water, but maybe something else? I can't remember what you sa..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "I've done a lot of lead testing. This was mostly by atomic absorption (AA), in an industrial situation. The specs have changed. The lead levels ..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| liz | "Hi @read_holman, I added the tag question:lead to this great question in order to link this to some previous postings and a bit of discussion. " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| belkinsa | "Thank you! " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "It's listed on Amazon as the Atlas Scientific EZO-DO. It is listed at $46.00. It talks by uart, so a Pi might work. Atlas Scientific should have ..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| belkinsa | "is it a Pi or something else? Can I have the link/ " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| maxliboiron | "Looks about right to me. " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| jiteovien | "Thanks for the reply Max! So, what we are really looking at for conversion is adding a secondary light source as seen in the image below. " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| maxliboiron | "In a perfect world, you wouldn't be looking through plexi at your marine plastic because plexi has characteristics of plastic (scratches, reflectio..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "A bit more info on this back at this question from some months back: https://publiclab.org/questions/stevie/12-08-2017/could-the-raspberry-pi-micro..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "@jiteovien just linking your diagram and challenge up with this reply from @maxliboiron -- https://publiclab.org/questions/jiteovien/08-08-2018/can..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "This looks great, and AWESOME diagram! @maxliboiron do you think we have to flip the dissecting scope so that the materials can be on the same side..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| maxliboiron | "Yes-- the issue is the lighting, not the magnification. Most plastics are opaque, and the closer you zoom in, the harder it is to identify plastics..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| Bronwen | "My (cursory) understanding from talking to @maxliboiron is that this microscope, which has a light source that passes through the sample (on the op..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| ShainaKasper | "I work with dozens of community groups fighting PFAS drinking water contamination and I have a few things to share: (1) When testing, there are a l..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| sammy_6_2003 | "The cost for analysis can be quite costly. We are currently working in our lab network (Enthalpy Analytical LLC) to be able to offer a low cost scr..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago |