Mobile Water Testing Laboratories of PHED, Assam

The mobile laboratories for water quality testing is intended to cover rapid testing of the basic water quality parameters in remote and hilly areas ; where there are no laboratories within a reasonable distance of the sampling station. The mobile laboratories shall provide support during natural disaster, epidemic, large scale emergencies, and refugee camps and/or to areas without electricity supply. A significant advantage of this mobile laboratory is that the tests are carried out on fresh samples whose characteristics have not been contaminated or otherwise changed as a result of storage in a container, thus it must be used for areas that are sensitive with respect to some water quality issues.

Fig. Mobile Water Testing Laboratory in the field