World Water Monitoring Challenge Program

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World Water Monitoring Challenge Program

World Water Monitoring Challenge Program

Objective

The primary goal of World Water Monitoring Challenge is to educate and engage students on 8-th graders school in the protection of the world’s water resources.

The specific objectives of this program are:

To bring students together to learn about the importance of monitoring their local water resources and what they can do to help protect them;

To gather information about the quality of local body waters in many sites for a specific period of time.

Overview

The Program is planned to be conducted from March 22 to December 31. All monitoring data are reported online before December 31.

The program is conducted in three stages as follows:

First Stage:

Signing of official Cooperation Agreement between the Association and the Albanian Ministry of Education and Sports on World Water Day, 22 March.

Second Stage:

The Association conducts training course for biology – chemistry teachers of 8-th grade schools. Students receive the Instruction and Test Kits. The WWMCH test kit includes everything they need to test for temperature, pH, turbidity and dissolved oxygen, including:

– 1 Instruction booklet

– 1 Sample collection jar

– 1 pH test tube

– 1 Dissolved oxygen vial

– 2 Temperature strips (14-40°C and 0-12°C)

– 50 pH reagent tablets (enough for 50 tests)

– 100 Dissolved oxygen reagent tablets (enough for 50 tests)

– 1 Color chart for determining DO, pH and turbidity test results

– 1 Mini pencil

– 1 Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)