People-powered water quality monitoring

清洁水对人类健康至关重要，对应对气候变化也至关重要。在对1800项气候适应战略的回顾中，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之一。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至关重要。“星球巡逻”是一个非营利组织，它将人们聚集在一起解决环境问题。自2016年以来，星球巡逻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45万件垃圾，创建了一个大数据集，以支持我们在垃圾、塑料、环境和政策方面的活动和研究。在这种以参与为主导的垃圾运动取得成功后，水污染水平已成为我们越来越重要的优先事项。初步结果表明，我们的水测试工具运行良好，但存在参与和可及性方面的挑战；我们的一些试验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将与地形测量局的设计团队合作，考虑将带来以地球为中心的变化的元数据需求，以及我们的志愿者测试人员的用户旅程，以寻找干预措施、激励措施和机会，让公众参与到可扩展、可交付和高效的水质测试运动中，该运动可以在全国范围内推广。该项目由学术研究人员（代表Planet Patrol和作为水道健康的科学倡导者）提供信息，并涉及以人为本的设计技术，该技术将与志愿水测试人员和Planet Patrol的社区监护人队列作为焦点小组探讨行为和动机。这种方法将为未来可扩展解决方案的发展提供一个计划，使我们能够收集所需的数据，建立一个强有力的证据库，以推动有针对性的变革，并显著改善英国水道的健康。

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.