Stream Monitoring and Stewardship Programme Involving a Partnership Between Community Organizations, High Schools and a University

The long range aim of the programme described in this paper is to raise public awareness of water environmental issues to a point where meaningful and informed public participation in environmental decisions is possible. The approach to achieving this goal is as follows: Students from local high schools learn to monitor the level of coliform bacteria, E. coli, phosphate ions, ammonium ions, toxicity, using Daphnia magna, and other pertinent …