UNESCO-backed platform seeks to encourage information sharing among freshwater management citizen science projects
Joanna Marsh
What if a citizen science project in British Columbia that’s focused on preserving water resources could learn from citizen science projects in South Africa or Pakistan that have the same objective for their local communities? An initiative developed through the Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) seeks to do just that.
The initiative is called Citizens4Water, an online platform that UNESCO describes as..