How to get involved in the UK’s first-ever Autumn Water Watch

Autumn Water Watch is a citizen science survey to help assess the health and quality of our freshwater environments and determine what needs to be done to urgently tackle the UK’s water quality crisis

Thursday 13 October 2022 07:18 BST

UK’s first-ever Autumn Water Watch to launch this month

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Planet Patrol, the environmental non-profit organisation dedicated to tackling the pressing threats of pollution, is launching the UK’s first-ever Autumn Water Watch.

Autumn Water Watch is a citizen science survey to help assess the health and quality of our freshwater environments and determine what needs to be done to urgently tackle the UK’s water quality crisis.

Autumn Water Watch will run from Friday October 14 until Sunday October 16 2022 and calls on people up and down the UK to spend just 15 minutes observing their local waters.

The data collected via the Planet Patrol app will gather valuable insights into the overall health of our waterways, providing near real-time results in a first-of-its-kind nationwide baseline study.