Get Involved and Make a Difference in Protecting Our Communities and Environment
Our mission is to continuously monitor our water and empower communities with actionable insights to improve water quality and safeguard our environment.
We are a non-profit community focused, technology organization. We are organized around two main efforts: technology and community. We want to use the very best tools technology can provide to empower communities without breaking banks.
Technology
We provide people with affordable monitoring devices built to our needs. We work with the very brightest engineers and scientists to continuously improve our water monitoring devices and data intelligence. Our technology effort can be broken into two products: our monitoring hardware devices, and our cloud of water data continuously streaming in from the devices and the AIs looking at it for suspicious patterns.
Community
We put a lot of time and effort into making our water monitoring devices as easy to maintain and data as insightful as possible. But we need people on the water to maintain these devices and investigate issues our system detects. Our system can alert volunteers about things like low battery in the devices, or suspicious changes in the water color at one of the devices they manage.
Open Volunteer Roles:
Water Wardens
Water Wardens are volunteers who personally manage our water quality monitoring devices. Our Water Wardens are responsible for things like:
- Ensuring monitoring devices always have charged batteries
- Investigate any weird patterns their devices are detecting
- Making sure devices are generating and uploading data
Water Wardens get recognized for improving water quality data in areas they monitor. We publicly recognize and promote volunteers who help and make a difference.
Sign up to our mailing list in our website’s footer to find out when we’ll be accepting our next batch of Water Wardens!
Contributors
If you like what we do but don’t personally have the time or live near water, we are a non-profit and are thrilled for any support we can get.
Funds from contributors go towards funding devices for potential Water Wardens who may have the time and commitment but not the funds. Funds from contributors also go towards various administration efforts, such as replacing lost or stolen devices, and general costs of running our organization.
Sign up to our mailing list in our website’s footer to find out when we’ll be accepting contributions!
Open Source Contributors
Our organization requires efficient use of cutting edge technology. We believe that constant iteration is better than delayed perfection. We’re always looking for good nerds with big hearts to help us improve upon what we have now, to help us build better monitoring devices, more efficient software, and ever improving AI and other data analytics to find more value in the data we collect.
A good place to start is by checking out our Github organization. We have all our monitoring device, cloud, and data analysis software hosted there. Find a project that you think you can help with and start contributing!
Organization Roles
We are looking to hire specific volunteer roles to help run our organization. Check out our careers page to see if there is a role you could make a big impact in.
