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Details of the Aquatest2 project, which forms the next phase of this research programme, may be found here.

The European Union are supporting many other water-related initiatives, including:

  • The EU Water Initiative ( www.euwi.net ), which provides major investment into the water supply and sanitation sectors

  • ERA-NET ( www.euwi-era.net ), which co-ordinates member state research in developing countries funded through the EU Water Initiative

  • African Water (www.africanwater.net ), which helps promote the participation of African institutions in the European Union’s water-related research

  • The Water Supply and Sanitation Technology Platform ( www.wsstp.org ), whose Technical Working Groups research water-related issues

 

  • The Techneau Project (www.techneau.org), which covers many water-related activities, including a Work Area (WA3) relating to monitoring and control of water.

The International Water Association is supporting World Water Monitoring day ( www.worldwatermonitoringday.org ), an initiative to encourage better water surveillance across the globe.


Many of the AQUATEST project team are part of the World Health Organisation’s International Network to Promote Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage (www.who.int/household_water/en/ ).


There are some existing low-cost water quality tests, which are now quite widely used. Examples include the DelAgua test developed by University of Surrey ( www.delagua.co.uk ) and the H2S test ( www.etc.murdoch.edu.au/pages/news/h2s_01.html ). In developing a new test, we hope to build on the excellent platform that these existing technologies provide.


The WHO has published a number of documents and guidelines related to drinking water quality and diagnostic methods. Some of their relevant titles are listed below:

The Journal of Water and Health publishes a great many articles of relevance to low-cost water testing. As just one example of this, a recent article has looked at how water quality testing can be used in parallel with sanitary inspection to prioritise different drinking water-related interventions.