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Hi-tech facility introduced to monitor water quality

Staff Reporter

Rural Development Minister inaugurates the round-the-clock system

BHUBANESWAR: Here is good news for residents of the capital city. They can now be rest assured about the quality of water they fetch from water taps in their homes. For the first time in the state, Public Health (Urban) Department has set up a hi-tech facility to monitor water quality round-the-clock.

The department on Wednesday launched ‘On-line Water Quality Monitoring and Automation’ at its Bhubaneswar Water Works with an apparent objective to do away with manual testing of water. "Our technical staff used to carry out quality testing manually before and after water treatment three to four times in a day. It involved a lot of concentration and had chances of getting flawed results," Executive Engineer of Public Health Manoj Nanda said.

Under this innovative programme, online water analyser machines had been installed on every channel by which water was sourced from river and it would give instant report on raw water turbidity and pH value, which could be monitored at different locations. The analysers will also help monitor of residual chlorine in clear water. Moreover, the system ensured accountability of employees who were in charge of getting the river water treated, Mr. Nanda said.

"Sirens will immediately go up if deviation in prescribed water quality is detected by the automation system. This will make employees at treatment plant as well as officials of PH department swing into action," the executive engineer said.

Under the programme, the PHD intended to store information on city’s water quality up to five-years on regular basis. "We are trying to extend the facility at distribution end. If that happens one can check water quality at a particular locality," Mr. Nanda said.

The system was inaugurated by Rural Development Minister Biswa Bhusan Harichandan in the presence of Urban Development and Public Enterprises Minister Kanak Vardhan Singhdeo on Wednesday.

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