The Model for CBWM

CBWM is a participatory process of linking a community group to appropriate technologies for understanding, protecting and managing their watershed.  Each monitoring program should be adapted to the unique biophysical, social and political features of a region.

Local Knowledge to Action

It is not enough to collect water data for its own sake.  Appropriate outlets for locally-generated information and the CBWM approach may be grouped into four general categories: Environmental Education, Protection and Restoration of the Environment, Advocacy and Spread. Monitoring groups should choose which of these strategies to take at a particular pace and scale.  Each group will have a unique mix of actions that will probably change over time.

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