Keepers of the Water Interactive Data Mapping Project Announcement

Today is World Water Day, and we are excited to make this important announcement about our water monitoring program and how we will present the data we’ve collected during our first year!

Keepers of the Water have begun the journey to create educational resources for schools and communities that can serve as teaching tools on the importance of biodiversity in Northern watersheds—launching on June 21st, 2023! The main drivers in the loss of ecosystems are agriculture, forestry and natural resource extraction. We must ensure that the natural areas that provide essential benefits to humanity, such as food, clean water, clean air and a stable climate, are protected.

That is why we are creating an interactive water-monitoring data map! This project is an Indigenous-led, community-based water quality monitoring program that will allow Keepers of the Water to change how water data is reviewed, used and shared. This program will occur through an Indigenous lens guided by Traditional Ecological Knowledge Keepers, Creation storytelling and knowledge-sharing practices that teach us how to live in balance with the natural world during our physical time on Mother Earth.

The Keepers of the Water’s focus for this project is to support Indigenous communities in having healthy and clean water, along with tools and educational resources that help our traditional science and knowledge of the territories the Creator placed us on. Keepers of the Water stand firm and are committed to ensuring that colonized western science can no longer be the norm for environmental studies and that Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge is critical and must be included.