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Water Drop DNA

by Bang Bang Agency

Lausanne

In the past 20 years 10% of nature was destroyed by humans.And in 60 years?This project assesses the health of lakes & oceans with Mike Horns support and aims to raise awareness and preserve our world

CHF 33’011

165% of CHF 20’000

165 %
This is how it works

The «all or nothing» principle applies: The project only receives the funds if the funding target is reached or exceeded.

107 backers

Successfully concluded on 22/6/2017

This is what it's all about.

IF YOU WANT TO PRESERVE THE PLANET FOR THE FUTURE OF YOUR CHILDREN, EVERYONE NEEDS TO ACT TODAY!

WATER DROP DNA WILL ALLOW EVERYONE TO MAKE A STATEMENT ABOUT THE HEALTH OF OUR WATERS, BY SUPPORTING OUR ANALYSES OF THE LIVING, GOOD AND BAD, THROUGH DNA SEQUENCING, WHICH WILL TELL US ABOUT THE BIODIVERSITY, ITS QUALITY, AND THEREFORE ITS IMPACT ON OUR HEALTH .

Our action plan:

  1. Allow everyone to analyze their own water, from the tap, the village fountain, a pond, a swimming pool and have an immediate result on the quality of the water in a simple and playful way.

  2. Teach young and older how to respect water by involving everyone in sampling days and laboratories analysis.

  3. Analyze the DNA from Mike Horn’s water samples and from each individual and thus determine all the living species in the water, their state of health and the pathologies that threaten them.

  4. Set up campaigns to raise awareness about our daily life gestures and habits locally by Bang Bang Agency and thanks to Mike Horn to an international audience.

How are we going to do that ?

Bang Bang is committed to inform, communicate and educate by popularizing scientific results, organizing water sampling days, and making this project sustainable on a long term.

Mike Horn will take water samples during Pole2Pole expedition for 1 year and through his audience share the results and educate citizens about the threats on our world.

Hackuarium will explain and help Bang Bang Agency and citizens to analyze water samples in the Swiss lakes.

Indigo V Expedition will proceed with the DNA sequencing of the Mike Horn samples as well as writing the analysis results.

Water Day sampling in Lausanne Switzerland
Water Day sampling in Lausanne Switzerland

What is your contribution for?

OBJECTIVE 1: Up to CHF 20’000.-

  • 3 days of water sampling in the Leman lake.

  • Material (DNA Kit) and analysis from ocean samples taken by Mike Horn.

  • Production of 50 water sampling kits to analyse water (pH and nitrates) at home.

OBJECTIVE 2: Up to CHF 40’000.-

  • By a MinION, the DNA sequencer to analyze water samples in Switzerland.

  • 5 days of water sampling in the Leman lake.

OBJECTIVE 3: Up to CHF 80’000.-

  • 10 days of water sampling in various Swiss lakes.

  • An educational program for schools: «Protection of water and living species».

OBJECTIVE 4: Up to CHF 120’000.-

  • Implement 2 local actions to protect threatened species, defined according to the results obtained by DNA analysis.
Water filtering in our Citizen Science laboratory
Water filtering in our Citizen Science laboratory

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