Portable water testing equipment comes to Mozambique

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Portable water testing equipment comes to Mozambique

11:56 CAT | 25 Jul 2017

Notícias

Analysis of water quality can now be done in less time with portable devices that can determine the degree of environmental pollution of water resources caused by human action.

One of these devices is the SL 1000 portable water testing device manufactured by HACH, an American multinational. The instrument was presented yesterday in Maputo at the first conference on good practices in the handling and use of laboratory equipment.

The SL 1000 can determine the amount of chemical compounds in water such as free chlorine, free ammonium, total chlorine, monochloramine and nitrites in just eight minutes, and
has two sensors which determine the levels of conductivity and the hydrogen ionic potential (pH) of the water.

The laboratory equipment conference brought together companies from the mining, beverage production, drinking water, energy, medicine and academic sectors.

Aquarel, the company that promoted the meeting, sees state-of-the-art water testing as facilitating better conservation strategies. Aquarel is the official representative of HACH in Mozambique and supplies laboratory equipment and reagents for water testing, and.

“We are motivated to bring innovative technologies for water testing into a context where there is a water crisis, not only in Mozambique but a around the world,” Aquarel representative Judyce Fernandes said.

She added that the water conservation imperatives mentioned were in line with Clause Six of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which by 2030 aim to “improve water quality by reducing pollution and the release of chemicals and halve the proportion of untreated wastewater”.

The SL 1000 will be available in Mozambique soon, at a price of US$2,000. Until then, conventional testing in laboratories will continue to provide test results in 30 minutes or so.

Source: Notícias