The Water Reporter

Collect observations to help local organizations keep a pulse on water health.

Water Reporter users discover, track, and examine pollution issues that threaten ecosystem and human health via user-initiated monitoring programs.

Water quality impacts our daily life and the health of our natural world. Addressing pollution threats can feel daunting: pollution sources often elude even the best scientists, and solutions take time — and resources — to make an impact. Despite all of the obstacles of combating threats to our watersheds, the environmental community is up to the challenge!

With Water Reporter we’ve created a platform where everyone participating in environmental monitoring can come together to collect geolocated data to shed light on watershed quality issues and publish the results as data-driven solutions to pollution problems.

Water Reporter is built and maintained by The Commons, a 501c(3) organization creating meaningful software solutions to support the environmental sector.

Key features:

• Former web-only tools now available on compatible Android mobile devices.

• Multiple options to collect and manage your water quality monitoring data.

• Build mobile-ready, location-aware data collection forms.

• Collect station-specific data via digital forms.

• Build data sources with your own protocols.

• Define your own scores and thresholds to indicate status and health for monitoring stations or parameters.

• Build portable maps to embed in websites and share through your media channels.

• Integrate data from the national network of USGS stream gauges.

• Maintain ownership of your data with downloadable data sources.