Community monitoring: collective diagnosis and action plan for the recovery of the Manialtepec River watershed

Community Water Monitoring: diagnosis and collective action plan for the recovery of the Manialtepec river basin.

Through observation, recording and interpretation of environmental data (chemical, biological and hydromorphological parameters), middle and high school students of this rural towns, develop a communication strategy to share the results and involve the authorities and other key actors in the definition of an action plan to regenerate the environmental conditions of this biodiverse coastal basin in Oaxaca, México.

This project’s purpose – headed by the Fondo para la Comunicación y la Educación Ambiental, A.C – is to stop the deterioration of the basing by involving the community’s young people in the construction of citizen science for their own benefit.

Community monitoring: collective diagnosis and action plan for the recovery of the Manialtepec River watershed is the Project of Falling Walls Engage Winner 2023 Maria Teresa Gutiérrez Mercadillo.