This group addresses persistent challenges in local water quality monitoring, including inconsistent methodologies, fragmented datasets, and limited stakeholder coordination. With regulatory bodies under-resourced and water companies often self-reporting, transparency and reliability remain concerns. The group explores how citizen science can complement formal monitoring by filling data gaps, expanding spatial coverage, and engaging communities. It aims to develop clear national standards, incentives, and coordinated data-sharing frameworks to ensure credible, inclusive, and transparent environmental governance.

See Shared Documents for full workshop 3 output and policy brief for this theme.