Water Rangers

Mission Statement: Water Rangers empowers communities with the tools to understand and care for their local waterways.

Vision: every waterbody’s community has the tools they need to take care of them. Every lake, river, or stream has enough data to know whether or not they are healthy.

Impact: We create accessible water-quality monitoring tools and data systems so that communities have a voice in protecting their waterways.

Programs:
● Water quality testing equipment
● Data management tools
● Curated programs to support building water quality programs

Competitive advantage: Our ability to design beautifully integrated water testing experiences.

Values:
● Simplicity
● Caring
● Connection
● Sustainability/Ecological responsibility/stewardship
● Accessibility (lowering of barriers in terms of prices and data sh

Company History

In 2014, Kat Kavanagh (Water Rangers’ Executive Director) helped her father test the water at their family’s cottage in Quebec. After realizing that there was no easy way for the average person to organize and share water quality data like the kind she and her dad were collecting, Kat decided to use her skills as a web designer to help create one. In 2015, Kat and a team of other technologists entered AquaHacking, competed with their idea for Water Rangers, and won. This marked the birth of Water Rangers!

As it turns out, tools like ours were sorely needed. According to the 2020 edition of WWF-Canada’s Watershed Reports, 100 out of 167 sub-watersheds in Canada were considered data-deficient. Our data platform and testkits make it so that this doesn’t have to be the case any longer; with our help, communities can help collect high-quality data and inform decision-making.

Company Facts

Over 9000 Canadians trained in water monitoring