SmartWater
Smartwater.brussels is a project to set up an extensive system for monitoring water quality in the Brussels-Capital Region. As part of this project, Atelier cartographique has created a web application for conducting citizen observation campaigns on the many dimensions of water quality in Brussels. The observation campaigns are carried out by hybrid groups made up of residents, users, public managers and associations around specific places where there is a body of water (ponds, streams, rivers, canals, etc.).
These citizen observation campaigns are an invitation to take
collective care
of the water that surrounds us. As part of the Smartwater project,
the involvement of these groups is essential in assessing the
relevance and necessity of incorporating one or other observation
form into a campaign. These groups are therefore involved in
creating the forms, which are structured as multiple-choice
questionnaires to make it easier to process the information. At the
end of a campaign, they remain involved in analysing and displaying
the data collected.