Life-Nitrazens has held two online workshops to report back to participants the results of the first collection of water samples in the Ebro and Duero river basins.
The recordings of both sessions, held in Spanish, are available on the project’s YouTube channel for those who could not join live or wish to go back over the research team’s explanations.
The first nitrate sampling campaign of Life-Nitrazens brought together volunteers, ambassadors and local nodes in the Ebro and Duero river basins. Once that fieldwork was finished, the project organised an online workshop for each basin to share with all of them what the analyses have shown.
The sessions served to present transparently the evidence obtained in the laboratories, show the open data visualisation platform and explain how the second sampling campaign will be organised.
In the Ebro basin workshop, Daniel Lisbona, from Ibercivis, set out the context of the citizen science methodologies used in the project. Marian Lorenzo, from CITA Aragón, detailed the analytical data from the samples of drinking water, groundwater and rivers, and explained the regulatory thresholds they are compared against. Nicolás Restbergs, from Osoigo, showed how the interactive map works, where the validated points and their nitrate concentrations can be consulted. Cintia Virumbrales, the project coordinator, presented the logistics, the improvements made to the protocol and the calendar for the next round of sample collection.
Both sessions can be watched in full on the project’s website (in Spanish), in the recording of the Ebro basin workshop and the recording of the Duero basin workshop.
The community water monitoring network remains open. Those who wish to take part in the second campaign as volunteers, act as ambassadors in their municipality or turn their organisation into a local node for collecting kits can sign up using the form on the measurement campaigns page.