World Water Monitoring Day, International Sept 18

Today is set aside as a day for people from around the world to test their local water ways for toxins. Established in 2002 in the United States and then internationally the following year, it was designed to both educate people about the importance of their local water ways and gather data to help understand the state of them.

Originally October 18th was chosen for the day to recognize the passing of the U.S. Clean Water Act but as water ways in many parts of the world will have already frozen over by that point in the year it was moved to Sept 18th. Now the official program runs from Sept 18th to Oct 18th but they will collect data all year long. 

I would suggest anyone who may be interested in clean water help with the program and see about supporting other endeavor to protect the water ways of the world (such as http://www.waterkeeper.org/).

A simple test kit, containing enough to test 50 sites can be ordered from the website http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.org/.