Welcome to the demonstration website for the WaterGrass River Alliance, an organization we made up in order to demonstrate how the WaterGrass database can integrate with the web.
Whenever people enter information or donate on one of these pages, it’s automatically logged in the database.
Here you’ll find examples of web forms that allow people to request for more information, sign up for a volunteer task, file a report of an incident or violation, or log a water quality monitoring report.
The first advantage is that the information goes straight into WaterGrass. So that removes the bottleneck around data entry.
But the real advantage is what WaterGrass can do with it once it arrives. Because of the innate power of Salesforce, WaterGrass can systematize you handle all the data. And you’ll want it to, because otherwise all the new data will be overwhelming.
Even with the time saved in data entry, most organizations won’t have enough extra time to respond to all requests or reports. By gathering them in this way, you can prioritize them and insert the most important into workflows.
For example, if you’ve got an important rainbarrel project, you can direct all the volunteers with interest in urban stormwater and runoff to the project coordinator. There are other potential volunteers you might decide not to recruit.
Or you can determine (based on your annual or strategic plan) that you need to control agricultural runoff, so that you’re going to share your monitoring results automatically with selected farmers along the river.
Each organization will handle data and processes differently. By formalizing them in this way, you’ll be able to gather more information and sift it for the opportunities that are most important to you.