Case Study: Watershed uncovers toxic environmental data with Felt

How Felt Helped Watershed Uncover a Toxic Legacy

Watershed, an investigative journalism non-profit, faced the challenge of making over 120 scattered environmental datasets accessible and visually understandable for the public. Their valuable information on pollution and land contamination was difficult to visualize and share using traditional tools. They turned to the vendor Felt and its cloud-native GIS mapping platform to solve this problem.

By implementing Felt's platform, Watershed could easily load diverse data formats, create elegant visualizations, and embed maps across news platforms. The result was the highly successful Watershed Pollution Map, which garnered over 700,000 views in its first few weeks. This Felt-powered tool directly enabled numerous high-impact investigative stories and became a vital resource for universities, regulators, and NGOs, dramatically increasing the reach and impact of the non-profit's work.

Watershed

Rachel Salvidge

Watershed