Water plays an important role in all aspects of our lives and its quality is deteriorating with ever-increasing pollution due to urbanization, industrialization and population growth. To sustain quality of life, it is imperative to detect water pollutants causing contamination. Typically, the detection of water quality is
time-consuming, and a cumbersome task requiring manual laboratory analysis and statistical inferences.

The rapid urbanization and industrial development have resulted in water contamination and water quality deterioration at an alarming rate, deeming its quick, inexpensive and accurate detection imperative. Conventional methods to measure water quality are lengthy, expensive and inefficient, including the manual analysis process carried out in a laboratory.

However, there have been several systems developed around the world, Africa and Zambia in particular that monitor and detect water pollution in real time. However, such research in Zambia is limited. Although Zambia has limited laboratory facilities both government and private owned through which more than 200 water quality parameters can be analysed, laboratory analysis itself is time consuming and does not offer real-time detection of deteriorating water quality. This is the sole reason Environ Intergrated Consultants does offer on-site and stationed bench top laboratory analysis in all provinces of the country.

Environ Intergrated Consultants has embarked on a campaign to ensure that it
sensitizes the communities using different models of health promotion and
education on safe quality drinking water by bringing water testing as close to the
family as possible. This is in a bid to assist the Government Republic of Zambia
achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number six (6) clean water and
sanitation.
The water quality parameters monitored include:
1. Temperature.
2. P.H
3. Electrical Conductivity.
4. Dissolved oxygen.
5. Alkalinity.
6. Total Suspended Solids.
7. Total disolved substances.
8. Turbidity.
9. Total and ortho Phosphorus.
10. Chlorophyll.
11. Ammonia.
12. Alkalinity and faecal coliforms