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Assessing quality: Students and teachers testing water samples in Dindigul on Thursday. DINDIGUL: Does anyone know the quality of water they drink? Now, students in government schools are in a position to gauge water quality. They can tell the government accurately whether the drinking water supplied to their school or village is good or bad and even suggest an alternative drinking water source if it is bad, thanks to an intensive training offered to students and teachers by the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board. Students and teachers have learnt to detect Total Dissolved Solids level, pH value, alkalinity, hardness, fluoride, chloride, ferrous, ammonia, nitrate and nitrite and metal levels in water samples. Test kitBesides training, each participating school would get a water testing kit containing required chemicals and equipment to test samples. One hundred samples can be tested with each kit. If they want to test more samples, all chemicals would be supplied again by the Board on payment of Rs.500, said K. Syed Sulaiman, Assistant Executive Engineer, and R. Solaiappan, Assistant Engineer. After testing samples brought by students from their schools, water from some schools were found to be unfit for drinking. Fluoride content was three mg per litre against the permissible level of 1.5 mg in drinking water at Government School, Sengurichi, and the TDS level was 2,238 mg per litre against maximum level of 2,000 mg in water brought from Government Boys’ School at Kovilpatti near Natham. They were declared as unfit for drinking. Most of the samples tested in the morning session had one mg of ammonia (it should be nil.) But the samples did not have metals. The engineers said that they would refer these cases to Rural Drinking Water Development Division to find alternative drinking water source to these schools. Ninety six students and 24 teachers in Dindigul, Sanarpatti, Natham and Reddiyarchatram unions were trained. Similar training for those in Vedasandur, Vadamadurai and Gujiliamparai would be held on June 24 in Vedasandur, for schools in Palani, Oddanchatram and Thoppampatti on June 26 in Palani and for schools in Batlagundu, Nilakottai, Kodaikanal and Athoor on July 1 at Batlagundu. The Board had covered Madurai and Sivaganga. The other seven southern districts would be covered soon.
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