Monitoring the quality of the drinking water

  • Organizing emergency response teams

    The volunteers' first glimpse of where they will be working.

  • Loading the emergency equipment

  • Coming face to face with the aftermath of the tsunami

  • Getting the volunteers and equipment to where they are needed

  • Checking the equipment

  • The welcome of the local community

  • Assisting NGOs

  • Living conditions

  • Inventory of requirements

  • Assessing the quality of the wells

  • Prioritizing drinking water for the hospital

  • Repairing the water supply system in Meulaboh

  • Treating water

  • Storing drinking water

  • Supplying water

  • Monitoring the quality of the drinking water

  • Children back at school

  • Supplying drinking water to remote villages

  • Concentrating on the task ahead

  • The feeling of having been useful


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Ensuring the quality of the drinking water and sharing expertise

Volunteers are able to monitor water quality using kits specifically designed for use in providing emergency relief.

After being involved in several emergency response operations, experts from the emergency response unit, Veolia Waterforce, designed and built kits which can easily monitor the water quality of drinking water (salt content levels, pH, turbidity, bacteriological state and chlorine levels, etc.) under adverse conditions.

Used in Southern Asia for the first time at the beginning of this year, these kits proved to be most effective.
The technical expertise was shared with local representatives so that these kits could continue to be used once the volunteers had left.