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Community Outreach and Involvement

Bringing Water Science and Management to Communities

The Division of Water conducts outreach in many ways, including programs led by River Basin Coordinators, maps and tools maintained by the Division, water education curriculum and equipment checkouts, groundwater technical assistance, and support for volunteer stream and lake monitoring. Visit the links below to learn how to get involved or learn more about your local waters.​​

Outreach booth at event.

Community Initiatives

Basin Coordinators with DOW can come to speak to your school, watershed group, and local governmental officials about water quality, conservation, and funding opportunities for watershed planning. For more information, visit the Basin Coordinator page for the contact in your region.

DOW Water Maps Portal cover page.

DOW Water Maps Portal

Learn more about Kentucky waters with maps and viewers. This page showcases the work that the DOW does to protect and maintain our resources. From floods to drought, drinking water, surface water and groundwater, find it all here.

Ollie Otter and volunteers.

Environmental Education

Water education and outreach assistance, equipment checkout, resources, and opportunities

Groundwater spigot.

Groundwater Assistance

Information on how to get technical assistance, dye-trace notifications, and other resources for all groundwater related concerns.

Kentucky Watershed Watch logo.

Kentucky Watershed Watch (KWW)

Watershed Watch offers training to citizens interested in water quality. Volunteers are trained on how to take a qualified water sample that is analyzed by professional labs, and learn how to monitor basic water chemistry and assess stream biology and habitat.

Project WET logo.

Project WET

DOW partners with the Kentucky Association for Environmental Education to provide water education through curriculum developed by The Project WET Foundation (PWF). Project WET's goal is to provide scientifically accurate and educationally sound water resources education materials, training courses, and networking services to citizens, organizations, governments and corporations.

Kentucky Lake Sunrise.

Volunteer Lakes Monitoring Program (VLMP)

The VLMP trains citizen scientists to monitor lake health in order to help us understand and protect this vital resource.

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​For more information contact:
water@ky.gov​
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