The Water Environment Federation and the International Water Association have launched a new data mapping feature for World Water Monitoring Day, Sept. 18. Housed on the program’s web site, the map will facilitate navigation of the data collected for WWMD and enable participants to connect with one another. The map, which runs off the Google Maps platform, was designed as a volunteer effort by the New Zealand-based firm Outpost Central.“In late 2008, the program’s leadership was discussing the logistics involved in creating a web-based data map that could read from the WWMD database in real time, when we received an
