About Water Rangers
Building the tools to care for your local waterways.
We imagine a world where every waterbody’s community has the tools they need to take care of them. Plus, every lake, river, or stream should have enough data to know whether or not they are healthy. Our ability to design beautifully integrated water testing experiences means that our tools are easy-to-use and accessible. That means custom water quality testkits, an open-data platform to manage data, and specially designed resources so that anyone can get started.
We were founded at the Aquahacking challenge in 2015. Here’s a quick 2-minute video that explains a bit about ‘why we are’ and what our platform can do.
Our amazing team
Kat Kavanagh
Executive Director
Gabrielle Parent-Doliner
Director
Laura Gilbert
Community & Operations Manager
Nikolas MacLean
Sustainability & Social Enterprise Manager
Praise Osifo
Community and Research Coordinator
Kiersten McCutcheon
Community Data Coordinator
Will Sayavong
Warehouse Coordinator
Jonas Pestieau
Community Data Intern
Phil Sayavong
Social Enterprise Assistant
Emelia Duguay
Communications Coordinator
Our impact
25,000
people trained on how to test water quality
3,500
testkits distributed to communities, schools, universities, and conservation authorities
5,000
waterbodies monitored, collecting over 200,000 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)
