Test your water!
Are you curious about your tap water? What about the local stream or river? Is swimming allowed in the lake near you? Iowa’s water quality crisis is also a public health crisis. What can we do?
Iowa CCI partnered with Izaak Walton League and their Nitrate Watch program to facilitate citizen water testing. We had great participation with over 150 people ordering test kits last year. It's super simple and we are excited to offer this people powered program again in 2025!
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! We encourage people to test their tap water AND a local water body.
Step Four: Log your data into the Clean Water Hub database.
We hope you will join us to test water and collect data! We are planning to resume the monthly Zoom meetings at the end of March. Stay tuned!