DO YOU KNOW THAT

The United States has one of the safest water supplies in the world. More than 3.4 million people die each year from water, sanitation, and hygiene-related causes. Nearly all deaths, 99 percent, occur in the developing world. In 2011, 768 million people were still without access to improved sources of drinking water while 2.5 billion people did not use improved sanitation. Globally, diarrhea is the leading cause of illness and death, and 88 per cent of diarrheal deaths are due to a lack of access to sanitation facilities, together with inadequate availability of water for hygiene and unsafe drinking water.

WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?

Presently, COWD has been conducting periodic water quality monitoring with the parameters of pH level, turbidity, and the residual chlorine of the water supplied by RVWCI before it reach and mix with COWD water supply. Water samples from the RVWCI pipeline are manually collected by COWD personnel and analyzed in the laboratory for the purpose to characterize and identify changes of trends in water quality before it reach consumers and able to respond to emerging water quality problems.

The researchers sought to answer the following:

How can we improve the present water quality monitoring system with less human intervention?

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY :

This study aims to design and implement a monitoring system to monitor specific parameters of water:
1. To design a remote monitoring system for water quality parameters namely: dissolved oxygen and conductivity.
2. To develop a database that will received and store data. 3. To make a graphical user interface (GUI) that will display and store the monitored parameters of quality of water from the remote area.

Significance of the Study :

To the consumers, this project would help them know the quality of water that they are drinking because the readings of the monitored

parameters of water will be easily viewed online by visiting the website

that will be provided. To the COWD members, this project would help them conserve their

strengths and their time as well, because instead of going to the site
where the water source is located to get water samples and go back to their laboratory to test those samples, they can easily remotely monitor the water quality using telemetry.

WATER QUALITY :
- refers to the chemical, physical and biological characteristics of water. Physical parameters are: Temperature, taste and odor, turbidity, true color and total dissolved solids which can be link to conductivity. Chemical parameters are: hardness, pH and dissolved oxygen. It is a measure of the condition of water relative to the requirements of one or more biotic species and or to any human need or purpose.

WATER QUALITY INDICATORS

SENSORS USED:
Conductivity. in water is affected by the presence of inorganic
dissolved solids such as chloride, nitrate, sulfate, and phosphate anions (ions that carry a negative charge) or sodium, magnesium, calcium, iron, and aluminum cations (ions that carry a positive charge). Organic compounds like oil, phenol, alcohol, and sugar DO NOT conduct electrical current very well and therefore have a LOW conductivity when in water. Conductivity is also affected by Temperature: the warmer the water, the higher the conductivity. Distilled water has conductivity in the range of 0.4 to 3 mS

CONDUCTIVITY SENSOR

Dissolved oxygen.

analysis measures the amount of gaseous oxygen (O2) dissolved in an aqueous solution. Oxygen gets into water by diffusion from the surrounding air, by aeration (rapid movement), and as a waste product of photosynthesis.

Dissolved oxygen criteria for drinking water which exist in adjacent jurisdictions include: 5 mg/L minimum-same as for aquatic life , >8.0->9.5 mg/L-same as for aquatic life

DISSOLVED OXYGEN SENSOR

DATA GATHERING PROCEDURES AND ANALYSIS

SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM

SET UP

CONNECTING THE GIZDUINO MICROCONTROLLER TO THE GIZDUINO GSM SHIELD SIM900D

SET UP

SAMPLE WEB PAGE:

BLOCK DIAGRAM

TABLES OF THE OUTPUTS FROM MANUAL MONITORING AND FROM TELEMETRY

VIDEO 1: FOR THE MANUAL LOGGING

VIDEO 2: FOR THE MONITORING VIA TELEMETRY

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