Ohio Water Sentinel Program Page

The Ohio Water Sentinel Program seeks to educate, engage, and empower volunteers to restore, improve, and protect Ohio’s waterways. 

Thanks to the generous support of Aveda salons, institutes, and retail experience centers, the Ohio Chapter has engaged thousands of volunteers and trained more than two hundred citizen scientists to monitor our waterways for pollution.

The Clean Water Act requires states to test their waterways regularly. Unfortunately, the Ohio EPA and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources do not have the capacity to monitor all of Ohio’s 199,000 miles of rivers and streams. Thus it is critical for citizen scientists to record the quality of our water and keep a watchful eye. The Water Sentinel Program provides water monitoring kits, training, and sample analysis to participating groups and individuals who care about clean water.

• View our introductory WARN or visual monitoring training.
• Learn more about the Water Sentinel Monitioring Kit. 

• Visit Water Sentinel Resource Page
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