This project aims to assist Environmental Protection Bureaus(EPBs) nationwide in organizing and managing their River Watch programs. We have publishes 'Management Guideline for River Watch Program',conducted evaluatiions of the effectiveness of program administration for each EPB,and help training workshops for river watch volunteers.In these workshops,we encouraged the river volunteers to tale at least one of the six actions to protect water quality. These actions includes reportion pollution,assistion pollution investigation,attending training workshop,monitoring water quality,picking up river bank rubbishes,and pollution prevention in household.'River Volunteer Handbook' with the necessary information to conduct the six actions was distributed to the attendees during the workshops. In this project,we also conducted a questionnaire study to evaluate the suitability of current River Watch program to the volunteers. The result suggested most of volunters satisfied with the present program. In order to improve the skills of river watching and monitoring,web-based communication platform was established. In this way, the idea of protection the aquatic environment can be deelply rooted,illegal wastewater discharge can be watched and prevented, and the river cleanup project can,thus,be ensured.

River watch,Public Participation,Management of River Watching Program