People-powered water quality monitoring

清洁的水不仅对人类健康至关重要，而且对应对气候变化也至关重要。在对1，800项气候适应战略的审查中，超过80%与水有关。我们的水道处于气候危机的前线，但也可能是我们最伟大的捍卫者。展望未来，很明显，为了人类和地球的健康，我们采取行动改善水质既紧迫又重要。Planet Patrol是一个非营利组织，将人们聚集在一起解决环境问题。自2016年以来，Planet Patrol活动和应用程序用户已经收集了500吨垃圾，并在83个国家记录了超过450，000件垃圾，创建了一个大数据集，以支持我们的活动和对垃圾，塑料，环境和政策的研究。随着这种以参与为主导的垃圾运动取得成功，水污染水平已成为我们日益重要的优先事项。初步结果表明，我们的水测试套件运行良好，但存在参与和可访问性方面的挑战;我们的一些试用测试人员没有完成计划中规定的全部测试承诺。在这个项目中，Planet Patrol将与Orlando Survey的设计团队合作，考虑提供以行星为中心的变化的元数据要求，以及我们的志愿者测试人员的用户旅程，以找到干预措施，激励措施和机会，让公众参与可扩展的，可交付和高效的水质检测运动，可以在全国范围内推出。该项目是由学术研究人员（代表Planet Patrol并作为水道健康的科学倡导者），并涉及以人为本的设计技术，将与志愿者水测试员和Planet Patrol的社区监护人队列作为焦点小组探索行为和动机。这种方法将为可扩展解决方案的未来开发提供计划，使我们能够收集建立强大证据库所需的数据，以推动有针对性的变革，并显著改善英国水道的健康状况。

Clean water is essential for human health, but also to tackle climate change. In a review of 1,800 climate adaptation strategies, over 80% were water-related. Our waterways are on the frontline of the climate crisis, but could also be some of our greatest defenders. Looking to the future, it is clear that for the health of people and the planet, it is both urgent and essential that we take action to improve water quality. Planet Patrol is a non-profit movement bringing people together to tackle environmental issues. Since 2016, Planet Patrol events and app users have collected 500 tons of litter, and logged over 450,000 pieces of litter across 83 countries, creating a big data set to support our campaigns and research into litter, plastics, the environment and policy. Following the success of this participation-led approach to litter campaigning, water pollution levels have become an increasingly important priority for us. Initial results show that our water-testing kits work well, but there are engagement and accessibility challenges; a number of our trial testers did not complete the full testing commitment set out in the programme. In this project, Planet Patrol will partner with the design team at Ordnance Survey to consider both the metadata requirements that will deliver planet-centred change and the user journey of our volunteer testers to find interventions, incentives and opportunities to engage the public in a scalable, deliverable and highly effective water quality testing movement that could be rolled out nationwide.The project is informed by Academic Researchers (on behalf of Planet Patrol and as scientific advocates for waterway health) and involves human-centred design techniques that will explore behaviours and motivations with volunteer water testers and Planet Patrol's cohort of Community Guardians as a focus group. This approach will deliver a plan for the future development of a scalable solution that will enable us to gather the data required to build a strong bank of evidence to drive targeted change and deliver significant improvement in the health of the UK's waterways.