Framework for water quality testing, monitoring:

✅Jal Shakti Ministry launches framework for water quality testing, monitoring.

✅The framework is part of the Centre’s flagship Jal Jeevan Mission. Of the ₹3.6 lakh crore Jal Jeevan budget, 2% has been earmarked for quality monitoring.

✅The guidelines mandate a network of the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) accredited labs to be set up in every State, district and block over the next year.

✅At the panchayat level, teams of women in the village water and sanitation committees will be given field testing kits.

✅Apart from voluntary tests by members of the public, officials have been mandated to do regular inspections. 

✅ guidelines are:

🔸pH value, total dissolved solids, turbidity, chloride, total alkalinity, total hardness, sulphate, iron, total arsenic, fluoride, nitrate, total coliform bacteria, e.coil or thermo-tolerant coliform bacteria.

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