Innovations for Water Quality Monitoring
Everyone has the right to safe and affordable water for personal and domestic use. However, there are still over 1.8 billion people globally who are exposed to unsafe drinking water sources. Drinking contaminated water with faecal bacteria can lead to preventable deaths. In response to this situation, world leaders adopted the Sustainable…, Monitoring water quality, E. coli is the World Health Organization (WHO) preferred indicator to measure fecal contamination of water and is used by UNICEF and its partners to monitor water quality at the community and household levels. Unfortunately, current methods used to quantify E. coli contamination require overnight incubation and specialized training for staff…, Forum of problem solvers, On 22 November 2016, UNICEF and the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation will host a Stakeholder Consultation at UNICEF HQ in Copenhagen, Denmark. This open forum will bring together practitioners, subject matter experts, and product developers to exchange knowledge and share experiences to identify and prototype…, , Read more about UNICEF’s E. coli project and the product innovations that UNICEF is interested in.