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World Water Monitoring Day
Congratulations South
Dakota on successful participation in World Water
Monitoring Day 2009! We more than tripled the number of
people participating in World Water Monitoring Day (WWMD) from
2008.
Plan now
to participate in WWMD in 2010!
You may request a kit or kits for your class, youth
program, or home school. Please see
World Water Monitoring Day
training for information about how to get a kit.
:World Water Monitoring Day™ is
an international education and outreach program that builds
public awareness and involvement in protecting water
resources around the world by engaging citizens to conduct
basic monitoring of their local water bodies.
Your class, Scout group, 4H
club, home school, or environmental or science club can now
participate in World Water Monitoring Day even if you do not
have any equipment in one of two ways:- Borrow our Water Quality Monitoring
Loaner Trunk (you pay only return shipping)
- Request a World Water Monitoring Day
kit
from the SD Discovery Center (online training required).
To borrow the loaner trunk, please contact Anne Lewis at
annelewis@sd-discovery.com or call 605-224-8295.
Which should I
choose?
1. If you don't know which one to pick, the following may help.Borrow the loaner trunk if:
- you are working with older (Grade 6 and up) students OR,
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you want data on a more refined scale.
Request the kit if:- you are working with younger (Grade 3-5) students OR,
- you are ok with wide range data (essentially, some of the
results are the equivalent of "high", "medium" and "low").
2.
Compare the equipment lists:
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Loaner Trunk
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WWMD Kit |
- 4 Celsius thermometers
- 4 sets of pH paper
- 2 dissolved oxygen test kits
- 4 transparency tubes
- Field Guide
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- 1 Instruction booklet (English/Spanish)
- 1 Sample collection jar
- 1 pH test tube
- 1 Dissolved oxygen vial
- 1 Secchi disk decal
- 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)
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3. Still not sure? Call Anne Lewis at 605-224-8295 to
figure it out! |