About Water Rangers
Building the tools to care for your local waterways.
Water Rangers began when founder Kat Kavanagh saw her dad collecting water data about the lakes he cared about. Like many community monitors, he had observations and measurements, but no easy way to record, share, or connect them with other data. There were no tools designed to make this work easy for communities. Together with co-founders Mark and Ollie, Kat built the first version of the Water Rangers platform for the AquaHacking competition, the starting point for the tools used today. Today, communities around the world use Water Rangers tools and data systems to monitor and share water data.
Our amazing team
Kat Kavanagh
Executive Director
Gabrielle Parent-Doliner
Director
Laura Gilbert
Community & Operations Manager
Nikolas MacLean
Sustainability & Social Enterprise Manager
Kiersten Garside
Community Data Coordinator
Will Sayavong
Social Enterprise Operations & Financial Analyst
Phil Sayavong
Production Assistant (Fulfillment & 3D Modeling)
Leo Sayavong
Social Enterprise Assistant
Alex Pocock
River & Community Coordinator
Alistair Young
Trustee
Fiona Poulter
UK Coordinator
Elena Francis
Community Data Intern
Our impact
45,000
people trained on how to test water quality
8,000
testkits distributed to communities, schools, universities, and conservation authorities
9,000
waterbodies monitored, collecting over 558,000 datapoints
>90%
participants feel like their actions in water monitoring are making a difference
90%
feel confident enough about the protocol that they can teach it to others
>90%
of participants take part in other stewardship activities after water testing (e.g. shoreline cleanup, planting)
