April 8, 2008 - 7:14am — mnrvcw
Moldovan Network of Rural Volunteering Centers for Water
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Rivers start with streams!
As part of the Moldovan Network of Rural Volunteering Centers for Water, we realized the monitoring of aquatic macro invertebrates at the Bucovat stream from Vorniceni village. In this activity we involved a group of ecological volunteers. Aquatic monitoring includes observations, estimates and forecasts of an aquatic system for a period. It is a good way how many an aquatic sources is polluted due to living being from river or stream.
The monitoring at Bucovat stream was done together with an expert, who told us a lot of new things about aquatic macro invertebrates, about causes of pollution and ways of resolving this problem. First the volunteers obtained information at theoretical part and then together with the expert we went to the Bucovat stream. Expert taught volunteers how they have to check water temperature, to see how much oxygen water has and others interesting things. Than with a special net volunteers caught the living being from the stream to establish how much insects species live in the stream and to determinate if the river is polluted. It was very interesting to admire and to examine every insect and volunteers were interested by this activity. We have noticed that after monitoring of aquatic macro invertebrates we found that our stream is polluted and in it live three insect species, unfortunately. But our volunteers are ready to action and to do everything to change the situation.
Our next activity will be the monitoring of aquatic macro invertebrates in Lozova village, where the Bucovat stream starts.