How Watchdog works

Watchdog forecasts when a stream is vulnerable, asks the people already there to look, and keeps a person in charge of every warning.

What we do

Forecast 72-hour Watch windows from weather, river flow and each site’s habitat.
Ask the people already at the stream to look and report in 30 seconds.
Let a coordinator review every signal and approve every public word.
Send approved events to health services in the HL7 FHIR standard.
Link each season’s risk to restoration, such as planting shade along the banks.

Detect toxins or measure water quality — we flag when a professional should look.
Diagnose people or animals. Animal reports are owner observations.
Collect human illness data.
Publish any warning without a person approving it.
Call a stream “safe”. We say what to avoid, and for how long.

Walkers never create an account. Your phone gets a random ID so we can count independent reporters.

Data	Why	Kept
Device ID (random)	Count independent reporters	Until you delete it
Report place and time	Place a sighting at a site	24 months, then aggregated
Signs and animal report	Scoring and health hand-off	24 months
Photo, metadata stripped	Coordinator review	90 days

Device ID: anon-8f92 (private)

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AI only drafts advisory wording, which a coordinator edits and approves. It never scores risk, decides or publishes.

Synthetic data · OneAquaHealth pilot · Apache-2.0

Synthetic data · OneAquaHealth pilot