Citizens4Water News

Karen Verstraelen, June 30, 2026, 8:21 a.m.

We interviewed Flavia Tauro, from the project RiverWatch: a citizen-science approach to river pollution monitoring. We talk about their experiences, the roles of the citizens and the challenges they are tackling.

Karen Verstraelen, June 10, 2026, 9:37 a.m.

How citizen science, traditional knowledge, and community voices are shaping water futures in Mali and Niger.

Karen Verstraelen, June 9, 2026, 12:34 p.m.

amertens Annelies Mertens, April 9, 2026, 3:04 p.m.

In Ghana, Accra, UNESCO and its partners empower the next generation of leaders to advance community-based hydrological monitoring and strengthen climate resilience.

Karen Verstraelen, March 23, 2026, 10:31 a.m.

Citizen-led water initiatives worldwide are reshaping how communities protect and restore freshwater systems. In South Africa’s Mthinzima catchment, a pioneering Water Research Commission project implemented by GroundTruth is testing an innovation that could take this movement further: a municipal-scale water quality credit system that transforms local environmental action into measurable value.

Karen Verstraelen, Feb. 11, 2026, 6 p.m.

On 11 February, the Citizens4Water platform was officially launched during an international webinar hosted by UNESCO IHP and Scivil. The recording of the webinar is now available.

Karen Verstraelen, Dec. 11, 2025, 10:37 a.m.

Discover a range of citizen science projects from around the world as the speakers share their experiences, best practices, and the challenges that they’ve faced. The webinar will also mark the official launch of Citizens4Water, the global inventory of Citizen Science projects on Water.

Karen Verstraelen, Nov. 27, 2025, 1:28 p.m.

On Wednesday November 19, Scivil was invited for a talk at a webinar organised by Acting4Water. In this webinar, we presented the platform and shared insights from the inventory of projects that we are creating.  We also presented the context of the Citizens4Water project in the IHP-IX programme of UNESCO. The presentation was followed by a Q&A.

If you missed it, the full webinar, including a presentation of Citizens4Water and Acting4Water, can be watched here.

Karen Verstraelen, Oct. 21, 2025, 7:59 a.m.

Water is life, but in many communities, access to clean water and understanding its importance remains a challenge. The project Diamonds on the Soles of Our Feet is transforming this reality through citizen science and creativity. In this interview with professor Jaqui Goldin, one of the founders of the project, we explore how DSF combines science, art, and education to create lasting change.

Karen Verstraelen, Oct. 10, 2025, 8:57 a.m.

The platform has gone live in testing phase! Be a part of it: submit your project and share your feedback with us.

Karen Verstraelen, Sept. 22, 2025, 8:47 a.m.

During the summer, the Citizens4Water team was joined by 7 international students to kick-off the inventarisation of projects. Read on to find out about the next steps for Citizens4Water.

Karen Verstraelen, May 16, 2025, noon

Siqing Yu is a PhD student at the KU Leuven (Belgium) and the University of Melbourne (Australia). As part of her PhD, she has been researching a wide range of citizen science projects. As her ethnographic fieldwork, she took part a few times as a volunteer in the WaterWatch project in the area of Melbourne, facilitated by the Merri Creek Management Committee, a local not-for-profit environmental organization. In this interview, she tells us more about this Australian project measuring water quality, how it came to be and challenges it faced.