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Free and Handy Water Quality App Debuts in South Africa

SciDev.Net reports the success of  a mobile phone application that can be used by low-cost feature phones to monitor local water quality via SMS. The Water Quality Reporter (WQR) can be used to check microbiological contamination, and carry out residual chlorine and hydrogen sulphide tests. 

The application was developed using open source programming and iCOMMS software, iCOMMS is part of the University of Cape Town. This team has also developed mechanisms for integrating water quality results into existing information systems.

iCOMMS wishes to expand the application, which is available for download at their site,  into the greater network of water treatment processes.

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