Assessment of Citizen's Measurements Using Test Strips for Water Quality in Medjerda Watershed (Northern Tunisia)
(2021) Youth and Water Security in Africa — p. 196-201, published
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Fehri, Raed 
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- (en) Water resources in Africa are subjected to many pressures related to urban growth and agricultural expansions which will be exarcebated by climate change. These pressures jeopardise achieving the UN-Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6). Water resources in Africa are subjected to many pressures related to urban growth, agricultural expansion, and climate change (Bahri et al., 2016). These pressures jeopardise reaching the UN-Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6). Efficient monitoring of water systems is pivotal for designing efficient water management strategies that alleviates aforementioned pressures (Mutambara et al., 2016). Yet, the water monitoring capacity in Africa is often very poor, in particular for Water Quality Monitoring (WQM). Citizen Science (CS) based WQM is nowadays proposed as an innovative approach to strengthen the WQM capacity (Fehri et al., 2020; Njue et al., 2019; Jollymore et al., 2017). The concept of CS is based on the potential social benefits of engaging, collaborating and actively involving citizens in data collection and knowledge generation. Yet, the quality of CS-based WQM is different as compared to reference WQM. CS-based WQM programmes need therefore to be thoroughly validated. The main objective of this study is to assess the quality of a CSbased WQM program for the Medjerda river in Tunisia.
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Chaabane, S., Fehri, R., Riahi, K., Khlifi, S., & Vanclooster, M. (2021). Assessment of Citizen’s Measurements Using Test Strips for Water Quality in Medjerda Watershed (Northern Tunisia). In Giuseppe Arduino and Nicole Webley, IHP, UNESCO (ed.), Youth and Water Security in Africa (UNESCO Special Issue, p. p. 196-201). UNESCO. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/224579