Test Water Quality

Safe and clean drinking water is very important in everyone’s life. Without good water supplies and proper sanitation people can suffer by different types of illness. The villagers/people in rural areas believes that the water from hand pumps, well, etc, is totally safe from bacteria and viruses. But this is a myth, which should be tackle at earliest. Since testing and analysing of water is the only way for finding the quality of water is safe or not. Thus, chemical and physical examination of drinking water is required to check its quality and impurities. Accordingly, the drinking water can be purified by proper technology/tests.

The village water and sanitation committee (VWSC) had distributed the field-testing kit of water at every village Panchayats in district Lalitpur. But the committee members including teachers do not have appropriate knowledge for testing and analysing the water at various distribution points. DWF took an initiative and has started an awareness campaign for practically testing the water using field water testing kit as provided by Jal Nigam, Uttar Pradesh at every Gram Panchayats. With the support of WSSO, Uttar Pradesh, the team of DWF has conducted few basic tests such as, chloride, hardness, turbidity, iron, nitrate, chlorine, fluoride, pH value, and H2S viol in front of village Panchayats, teachers, and other villagers. A total of 12896 persons were participated from all six blocks.

Important Key Points Suggested

  • Collect water sample from hand pumps/tap water by leaving the water for at least 5 minutes
  • VWSC suggested the testing of 5 Indian Marked-II hand pumps in every gram panchayat
  • Practically demonstrated different basic tests for drinking water
  • Declaration of the status of tested hand pumps water is safe for drinking or not
  • A total of 272 hand pumps were marked red in colour indicates unsafe or polluted water not suitable for Drinking
  • Alternate suggestive solutions like, boiling the water for at least 15 to 20 minutes, filtration with RO Kent, chlorination in water (use only after 10 hours), bleaching powder, etc, for reducing the amount of chemicals in the water
  • Bring awareness to the villagers about water quality through testing
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