PHED Minister Jacob Zhimomi and others during the inauguration on June 29. (Photo Courtesy: Twitter)
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Dimapur, June 29 (MExN): The State Water Quality Testing Laboratory has been moved to a new facility at Supply Colony, Dimapur from its previous location at Landmark/PWD Colony. The new facility was inaugurated by Nagaland Minister for Public Health Engineering Jacob Zhimomi.
The laboratory which was upgraded from District Laboratory in 2013 is open to public and any individual who wishes to test water quality can avail the facility, a press release informed on Tuesday. The state laboratory is also a referral laboratory for confirmatory test results conducted at district PHED laboratories in the other districts of state. The district laboratories are also well established and functional which are open to public, it added.
As per the release, water quality testing is the only tool that can identify safe drinking water, whether at the source, distribution point or at the consumer end. Water testing plays an important role in monitoring and surveillance of correct operation of water supplies and verifying the safety of drinking water.
Keeping in mind the importance of water quality and harmful impact of contaminated water that causes threat to human health, the department’s top priority is to mitigate water quality related issues by encouraging the masses to get their water sources tested in the laboratories with nominal charges, the press release stated.
It also stated that the state laboratory has facilities to test physical, chemical and bacteriological contaminants in water. Some of the parameters which can be tested in the state laboratory are pH, TDS, turbidity, total hardness, calcium ions, magnesium ions, iron, nitrate, chloride, fluoride, free chlorine, H2S strip vials, etc. The test reports will be based on the Bureau of Indian Standards’ specification for drinking water IS 10500:2012, it added.
The State laboratory is in the process of accreditation from National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL), the release stated.
