How Living Lakes Canada Built a Scalable Groundwater Monitoring Program with Aquarius.
From Fragmented Data to a Unified Water Monitoring Vision
Managing water data across a diverse network of partners is no small feat, especially for a nonprofit working across remote communities in British Columbia’s Columbia Basin. Living Lakes Canada faced a familiar challenge: fragmented data, limited capacity, and the need for a monitoring program that could stand up to the demands of climate resilience and community accountability.
Hear directly from Carol Luttmer, Groundwater Program Lead at Living Lakes Canada, as she shares how her team leveraged Aquarius to unify data collection across a 32-well monitoring network, simplify field workflows, and deliver credible, publicly accessible groundwater data at a regional scale.
In this session, you will hear how Living Lakes Canada:
- Built a collaborative monitoring network spanning First Nations, municipalities, and private landowners
- Replaced fragmented, short-lived studies with a centralized and sustainable data management program
- Streamlined QA/QC and field data collection without a large technical team
- Integrated local groundwater data into provincial platforms and public portals
- Positioned their program for long-term expansion with a standardized, repeatable model
Discover how grassroots collaboration, paired with the right data tools, can create a scientifically credible and operationally sustainable water monitoring program.
Your Speaker:
Aquatic Informatics
Tom Jurenka is a Solutions Engineer with Aquatic Informatics. He has a master's in Science and Environmental Studies and more than 35 years of experience in software development.
Growing up on the shores of Lake Ontario, Carol developed a keen interest in healthy water and watersheds. She is an environmental consultant based in Invermere, British Columbia. She has a BSc in Water Resources Engineering and an MSc in Geography with over 20 years of experience in environmental monitoring. She has worked on diverse projects ranging from wind erosion studies in the Mojave Desert, environmental site assessments in the Arctic, and various local water monitoring and conservation projects in British Columbia. For the last eight years she has been working on the design and implementation of Living Lakes Canada's Columbia Basin Groundwater Monitoring Program in southeastern British Columbia. She is currently the Program Operations and Data Manager.