Test your water!
To follow up the amazing participation of our Clean Water Book Club, let's talk next steps for getting the clean water we all pay for and deserve. Are you curious about your tap water? What about the local stream or river? Is swimming allowed in the lake near you?
Iowa CCI has partnered with Izaak Walton League and their Nitrate Watch program to facilitate citizen water testing. It's super simple and we are excited to launch this people powered program!
What does that look like? Community driven science with our own water testing and data collection!
Step One: Click here to order your testing kit from Nitrate Watch! This will come with 25 testing strips and instruction cards to help guide you through testing.
Step Two: Figure out your testing and monitoring plan. What water do you want to test and how often? Here is a link to the Nitrate Watch Monitoring Plan worksheet. This is a helpful resource for making your testing plan.
Step Three: Conduct some water tests! On your tap water and any local or favorite waterways.
Step Four: Log your data into the Clean Water Hub database.
We had several people ask about doing their own water testing and are excited about the partnership with Nitrate Watch to help meet that request. We hope you will join us to test water and collect data!