Methodology for public monitoring of total coliforms, Escherichia coli and toxicity in waterways by Canadian high school students

Public control and management of the environment and official decisions about environmental issues increasingly require public environmental monitoring by citizens. The aim of public monitoring is not to replace official monitoring. The difference is that official monitoring aims to determine if regulations are being broken, thus relying on accurate measurements obtained by court-acceptable procedures. Public monitoring, on the other hand, aims …