Development of Water Quality Monitoring Watchdog Pod

Introduction

 

It will estimate the water quality parameters such as fluoride, arsenic and nitrate concentration in potable water. The system will monitor following contaminants within prescribed limits:

Fluoride: 1ppm to 200 ppm (WHO limit: 1.5 ppm)
Nitrate: 10 ppm to 200 ppm (WHO limit: 45 ppm)
Arsenic: 10ppb to 50 ppb (WHO limit: 10 ppb)

 

Summary Application:

 

As per recent surveys, around 37.7 million Indians are affected by waterborne diseases annually, 1.5 million children are estimated to die of diarrhoea alone and 200 million working days are lost due to waterborne diseases. The resulting economic burden is estimated at Rs 36,600 crore every year. Additionally, it is estimated that the equipment market related to water technologies is worth approximately Rs 200 - 300 million, and expected to have double - digit growth rates every year.

 

Advantages:

 

• According to world resource institute recent report, India's water security is poor in the world and is most threatened, and thus to ensure water security, we must develop technologies to enable Sustainable Clean Water. Also, at present, available imported technologies are very expensive and at present no - made in - India technology is available to cater Indian market.

 

For further information please contact

 

CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology[CSIR-NEIST]
Email: : director@neist.res.in
Tel: 91-376- 2370012