Overview

Water quality problems have accumulated over many decades and may take decades to amend. Confirming that awareness and attitudes are changing and behaviors are being adopted in a watershed is one way that projects can demonstrate progress toward water quality goals. Social indicators provide consistent measures of social change within a watershed and can be used by managers at local, state, and federal levels to estimate the impacts of their efforts and resources. SIDMA is a survey-driven tool that can facilitate such analyses at any geographic scale.

For a detailed description of the Social Indicators system, please download the Handbook.

For a briefer summary, please review this 2-pager.

Steps To Measure Social Indicators
Measuring the social indicators of your project can be done in these 7 steps.