Global Water Watch

Global Water Watch (GWW) is a voluntary network of community based water monitoring groups, coordinated by the Auburn University-based Alabama Water Watch. The overall goal of GWW is to foster the development of citizen volunteers to monitor surface waters for the improvement of both water quality and public health. GWW helps communities establish teams of citizens who measure physical, chemical and biological indicators of watershed fitness. Monitors use their data to restore streams and lakes, improve drinking water quality and public health, and implement environmental education programs for the public. Current GWW partnerships include projects in Brazil, Ecuador, Philippines, and Thailand.

In 2009, the Chijnaya Foundation and Suma Marka invited Global Water Watch biologist trainers Sergio Ruiz-Cordoba and Miriam Ramos to Puno to conduct an inaugural three-day training for sixteen volunteer monitors. This marked the official commencement of the Suma Quta {“Beautiful Lake”) project, which aims to improve watershed management and communities’ right to know in the Lake Titicaca basin through data collection, analysis, and remediation efforts.

Click here to read more about what the Chijnaya Foundation is doing to help improve watershed management in the Lake Titicaca basin