Gold Coast Waterwatch is an education and community engagement program designed to develop knowledge around the human impacts on waterway health in Gold Coast Catchment areas. Together, we discuss what a catchment is and how the health of the waterway may be improved or depleted through human activities as well as working with students and community members to undertake chemical and biological testing of waterways all around the Gold Coast.
When working with school students water testing is regularly conducted at a waterway within or nearby to the school grounds. We also conduct catchment crawls, where the students visit a number of sites in one day in order to compare the waterway health at different locations in the catchment.
Here is a little photographic insight into the Waterwatch through my eyes this year so far…