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Atlantic Water Network (AWN) is Atlantic Canada’s hub for community-based water monitoring. For nearly two decades, AWN has supported a growing network of over one-hundred community partner organizations throughout Atlantic Canada in all aspects of water quality monitoring, by creating shared learning opportunities, offering tailored technical supports, and promoting local water priorities at both regional and national scales.

Nova Scotia Salmon Association's Adopt A Stream provides funding and technical support to community groups to help improve the quality of aquatic habitat for fish and other wildlife in and around the waterways of Nova Scotia.

Explore the Networking Map, a platform fostering collaborations and knowledge sharing among individuals and organizations dedicated to adapting to climate change in Atlantic Canada. Join a growing network of community members driving action for a resilient future across the region.

The freshwater working group works on freshwater and estuarine data in Newfoundland and Labrador to identify knowledge, expertise, and needs to support management, research, and stewardship of freshwater and coastal ecosystems. The working group meets seasonally. Please email us to join the working group.

The Prince Edward Island Watershed Alliance (PEIWA) is non-profit cooperative association of watershed management groups on Prince Edward Island.  The overall goal of the PEIWA is to improve and protect the environmental quality of Prince Edward Island watersheds, for the benefit of all Island residents.

The New Brunswick Alliance of Lake Associations supports citizen based lake stewardship in New Brunswick. Our organization consists of fifteen lake associations and many volunteer groups devoted to the health of our lakes.

Representing almost 30 groups from across the province, the N.B. Watershed Caucus is a forum for watershed conservation organizations across New Brunswick to share experiences, information, and techniques. The objective is to foster sustainable partnerships and build capacity for watershed groups across New Brunswick through effective networking and communication.

A network of individuals and organizations that is interested in supporting water resource management within Nova Scotia through the sharing of expertise, experiences, knowledge and information, and resources.

A collaborative partnership of First Nations, Indigenous organizations, non-government organizations, academic institutions, and federal and provincial government departments established in Wolastoq/Saint John River to work together to conserve species at risk and biodiversity.

A collaborative partnership of First Nations, Indigenous organizations, non-government organizations, academic institutions, and federal and provincial government departments established in PEI to work together to conserve species at risk and biodiversity.

A collaborative partnership of First Nations, Indigenous organizations, non-government organizations, academic institutions, and federal and provincial government departments established in Kespukwitk/Southwest Nova Scotia to work together to conserve species at risk and biodiversity.

Living Lakes Canada is an award-winning NGO that facilitates collaboration in monitoring, restoration, and policy development initiatives for the long-term protection of Canada’s lakes, rivers, wetlands and watersheds impacted by climate risk.

The Our Living Waters Network is for groups who work towards freshwater health and believe in the power of working together. OLW exists to amplify the influence and impact of the many, diverse organizations that make up the water community in Canada.

This virtual community is a centralized place for waterfront associations, individuals, academics, students, and other organizations to connect and work together to protect local freshwater and enhance shoreline resilience.

The Temperature Logger R Workshop provides a walkthrough of two applications run using R language that may be useful for groups who collect temperature logger data. One app takes temperature logger data and efficiently converts it directly into a CSV file that can be uploaded to DataStream.

Atlantic DataStream is an open access platform for sharing information on freshwater health. It currently allows users to access, visualize, and download full water quality datasets collected by monitoring groups from Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia.

The Canadian Aquatic Barrier Database (CABD) is a standardized, curated, central, and open repository for barrier and connectivity data in Canada. It is a tool to support work in a variety of fields and sectors related to freshwater connectivity and aquatic barriers.

Water Rangers is a non-profit focused on inspiring the public to get involved by collecting water data around their local rivers and lakes. The data platform displays data collected by communities using Water Rangers test kits.

Swim Guide is a Swim Drink Fish initiative providing current, reliable, and accessible information on recreational water quality.

A Google Sheets template that provides a starting point for reporting water quality monitoring results to communities and stakeholders.

An interactive mapping tool that can showcase YOUR water quality monitoring datasets on your very own website. As long as your data is on DataStream, you will be able to add this tool to your website.

Integrating Water Monitoring Data: Water Quality Indices, Report Cards and Multi-metric Web Portals

A presentation on how to organize a multi-account social media strategy.

AWN's communication plan template will help you develop a strategy to best reach your communication goals and objectives. 

This guide was made to equip community-based water monitoring organizations with the tools to effectively build strong media relationships, and use these connections to communicate its findings to key audiences.

The Watermark Project is a community effort to collect and archive true stories about the ways people interact with water.

This guide outlines many possible formats for reporting on your water quality data. The format a report takes will depend on how specific audiences might best receive information (e.g., public meeting, brochure, technical report), what other processes the data support, and the specific goals of the monitoring plan.

Good communications is critical to increasing attendance and participation, inspiring volunteerism, and raising funds to complete the work. Learn how to  use effective communication to build awareness, attract and engage members and supports, and increase our impact.

A qualitative study was commissioned by Atlantic Water Network to identify community-based monitoring initiatives which were successfully driving policy changes in their areas and investigate if they had any common attributes or factors, which other groups could integrate into their CBM initiatives.

This report brings together academic, community, and government perspectives on the relationship between the collection of water data through community-based water monitoring programs (CBWM) and the use of that data to inform policy making. Specifically, this report addresses the question “what happens to CBWM data once it has been collected?”.

A report developed to support a business case for Community-Based Water Monitoring in Canada—showing that this method of environmental monitoring is a cost-effective way for Canadian and Indigenous communities to assert their interests and make the most informed decisions about their water resources.