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2020 World Water Day: The Live Planet Water Quality Map

2020. People all around the planet have joined forces two years ago, starting to weave a network of citizens, schools, universities, NGOs, local public administrations. The goal is to check all freshwater bodies on the planet for main pollutants, feed the data to a server and make them available for reuse and remix.
  • Volunteers have been trained in basic chemical and biological analysis; a network of teachers and scientists worldwide, led by MIT, has developed a low-cost, low-tech, easy-to-use kit. With funding from Google and others, they have been manufactured by the million. They have also been personalized: a team in Brazil has worked out a way to mount the kit on a piece of wood and simply float it downriver, to reach remote or dangerous parts of the Rio Amazonas and other rivers. Floating kits relay data via radio: since they are equipped with GPS units, water quality data come geotagged.
  • Space agencies worldwide are using satellite reconaissance to provide additional evidence from hi-res pictures taken from space.
  • Artists and designers go out of their way to make great presentations on the health of the world's waters, be it at the planet's level or at the individual stream's. They use spectacular infographics to convey the information in a breathtaking way and call fellow humans to action. Of course the map is fully editable in crowdsourcing. You can annotate it, search it, tag it, show location of potential sources of pollution.
  • The best part is, most of it is ongoing. Volunteers, local schools, local businesses are committing to "adopt a river", and they are going to keep feeding the serve wih fresh data, providing scientists and public authorities with up-to-date knowledge for what they do. And if a big red spot shows downstream of a chemical plant, well, we know what that means, don't we?
On World Water Day, as the system comes online, we see something like this - only with rivers and lakes instead of cities.

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And then we have a big party, of course. :-)

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