DataStream Launches New Interactive Guide to Water Quality

January 26, 2021

To explore the water quality guide, visit datastream.org/guide.

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Supporting standardized community-based water quality monitoring in the Greater Vancouver region

Nikki Kroetsch is a big believer in the power of community-based creek monitoring. Governments don’t have the capacity to monitor every little waterway, she says, which has led to many stewardship groups doing the work.

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Using data to fight Lake Winnipeg’s phosphorus problem

This is part of a blog series highlighting how water data is being put to use to protect freshwater.

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DataStream Publishes Open Data Standard to Support Water Science

The publication of an open data standard is enabling valuable freshwater data to be organized, accessed, and shared in a harmonized way. This data standard underpins  DataStream, a growing online platform for sharing water data collected by Canada’s diverse water monitoring and research community.

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