Project Description: Water Monitoring Toolkit Website Development

Welcome to Swim Drink Fish! We are thrilled to present an exciting opportunity for talented students to contribute to our innovative project, Water Monitoring Toolkit Website Development.

Main Goal:

The primary objective of this project is to change our procedures for community-based water monitoring into a toolkit that is accessible on our webpage for community groups and volunteers. This project will be amazing for our organisation to be able to share tools and methodologies for water monitoring nationally, helping us strive towards having clean waters all over Canada. The procedures for community-based water monitoring are already written our in text format, but we need an easy-to-navigate website for people to follow to understand how to water monitor. Here is our current toolkit website. We would like this transformed into a website with more capabilities and easier to follow, like this website. This build-out should be done using squarespace so that it is compatible with our existing site.

Project Scope and Expectations:

During this project, students will turn our already written content into a website format that is easy for anyone to use. We would like anyone to learn the science from this website. We would like a website that is easy to navigate, with water monitoring options that are in a modular format. Meaning, a community could choose to monitor trash, or they may choose to monitor E. coli and they may choose either option or have add-ons. The website must be using the branding of our non-profit and use squarespace so that it is compatible with the existing website. We would like the website to include video integration of already formed videos.

Company Overview:

Our mission at Swim Drink Fish is clear: swimmable, drinkable, fishable water for everyone. Though, what does that look like, how do we make it happen, and how do we conserve pristine places?

We see the answer to those questions wrapped in one powerful thing– community. It is why we see ourselves as much more than a conservation organization, but as a community movement to better recognize that we are not separate from nature, but part of it. Our work on water conservation is a collaborative effort, rooted in providing better equity and equality to communities.

We turn connection into meaningful action towards restoring and protecting local watersheds. All of us have a different level of connection to water, but through our programs that tell stories, support and build water literate communities, collect scientific data, and work to create access to blue space, we all collectively empower social and environmental change. These programs vary in scope, providing different epistemologies to capture the multitude of ways by which individuals and communities can foster their connection to water, so they’re better equipped to support their neighbours in protecting their waters from pollution in a way that is impactful for all (human and non-human).

Project Details:

Provide more detailed information about the project, breaking down tasks and milestones. This includes:

• Design the website layout and different web pages, in an easy-to-follow, modular format
• Transform the water monitoring procedures into bit-size chunks for each webpage
• Layout video integration into the webpage
• Format each webpage with content
• Final product

Final Deliverables:

Project deliverables:

• One website landing page that explains the toolkit
• One sidebar that allows users to easily follow the website
• We would like this toolkit to be modular. I.e. people may choose to monitor some things, but they can also choose add-ons if they would like to monitor trash as well as other protocols
• Integrate training videos into the toolkit
• If possible: integrate quiz questions into the website

Provide details about what the student will upload to the platform as their final deliverable(s).

• Screenshots of each webpage would be great

Benefits for Students:

• Web design
• Squarespace extension coding
• Exposure to the non-profit sector
• Networking opportunities within the non-profit sector