What would I be doing?

Some of the Waterwatch activities you can choose to be involved in include:

• Water quality monitoring in your local catchment
• Sampling for fish, frogs or macro-invertebrates
• Raising awareness about catchment health and local water issues
• Drain stencilling
• Organising planting or clean-up days
• Promoting Waterwatch messages

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Monitoring and data

By monitoring our waterways we can obtain a picture of catchment health.

Over time, monitoring can provide information on the state of our catchments, which can assist with the maintenance and rehabilitation of our waterways.

Monitoring can also:

• Screen for potential water quality problems
• Generate data to assist catchment management decision making processes
• Help to identify actions that should be taken to solve catchment health problems
• Provide learning opportunities for the local community (including schools) and encourage responsible catchment management and use
• Support and assist other monitoring programs undertaken by state agencies and local government

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