Analysis of Water Quality for Human Consumption
Protecting America’s drinking water is a top priority for EPA. EPA has established protective drinking water standards for more than 90 contaminants, including drinking water regulations issued since the 1996 amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act that strengthen public health protection. Over 92 percent of the population supplied by community water systems receives drinking water that meets all health-based standards all of the time. This is not the case globally, and for that remaining 8 percent of Americans. Innovation on ways to determine if water is safe to drink, and what contaminates make it unsafe will help millions of people gain access to safe water, and prevent them from drinking from a contaminated source.
Rede InfoAmazonia has developed an inexpensive monitoring system to analyze the quality of water for human consumption. It has also established a monitoring network in partnership with communities in the Brazilian Amazon. The hardware detects possible changes in water characteristics and the results help distinguish drinking water from contaminated water. It provides real-time analysis results and sends notifications to consumers via SMS.