Drinkable Rivers
Drinkable Rivers runs an ambitious Citizen Science programme that enables people to experience and monitor the health of their rivers.
Ultimately, it also helps us to track progress towards our goal: a world with drinkable rivers.
Drinkable Rivers engages people to experience their rivers, empowers local organisations to strengthen their specific mission by also monitoring the health of their river by inviting their communities to engage in citizen science.
Currently 90 organisations in 25 countries have joined our Citizen Science programme, so-called ‘hubs’. These hubs are run by enthusiastic people who mobilise volunteers to join. Most hubs are part of local environmental organisations, schools, visitor centres or companies. Each hub underlines the value of drinkable rivers’ mission, applies the same methodology and shares their findings on the data platform.
Strengthen your mission
Drinkable Rivers is happy and proud to work with a rich diversity of organisations throughout the world, each of them having their own mission. These organisations create a measurement plan according to their mission and will activate their volunteers locally.
Como participar
Join our Citizen Science community!
Do you want to join our Citizen Science programme? That’s fantastic! You can join an existing hub or start and create your own hub. Would you like to get more information? Here is an overview with the FAQs.
On 17 January ’25, we organised an online information session. If you would like to see the recording of this session, watch here.
Equipamentos necessários
What does it entail to become a Citizen Science Hub? You will:
- Receive a professional, standardised toolkit (50 measurements of 14 different variables) and access to our instruction manuals and videos;
- Join an onboarding period with weekly assignments via online workshops and videos, to finalise your hub measurement plan;
- Join our data platform for data sharing and mutual learning;
- Communicate about your Drinkable Rivers hub activities with a personalised hub logo;
- Join our Drinkable Rivers Community, receive ongoing support, join measurement weeks and other events.
As a Drinkable Rivers hub, you join with a long-term commitment to work together towards a drinkable river in your local area as part of your watershed. We ask for a one-time contribution of 520 € to join as a hub, covering all the above. All hubs use our professional measurement kit and share their research data on our data platform.