World Water Monitoring Day is a global event celebrated each year on October 18, following a month-long monitoring window that starts September 18. LMVP sampling ends around this time, so if you are a volunteer and you want to participate, be sure to collect a sample sometime after September 18.

Tony will personally submit the LMVP data to the World Water Monitoring Day staff, so you don’t need to do anything else to participate. If you want to enter your own data, please let us know so your numbers aren't submitted twice. You can visit the WWMD website at: www.worldwatermonitoringday.org. At the website you can read reports from the previous years and find out more about the event.

World Water Monitoring Day was created with two major purposes in mind. First, to serve as an educational platform to introduce people to the importance of water monitoring and connect them personally with efforts to protect and preserve their local watersheds, and second, as a means of expanding the base of information available about the health of each watershed over time.

- From the WWMD website at www.worldwatermonitoringday.org

A Summary of World Water Monitoring Day 2006

• World Water Monitoring Day is a worldwide event, with 4,917 sites monitored in 47 countries during 2005.
• 3,867 of those sites were in the United States.
• Missouri monitored 100 sites in 2005, making it the 11th ranked state in the U.S.
• The LMVP submitted data from 62 sites.
• Iowa and Virginia were in a different league, with 923 and 565 sites monitored, respectively. We have a long way to go before we reach that level of involvement!
• Other countries involved in 2005:
  Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, China (PRC), Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Ghana, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malawi, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Nepal, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Palestinian National Authority, Philippines, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan (Republic of China), United Kingdom and Uzbekistan.