Water quality testing and treatment in the proposed CPU water laboratory

Abstract

The impairment and progressive deterioration of water systems exposed to pollution in Region VI were not given importance because of the lack of water quality testing and treatment laboratory to monitor and correct them. It is because of this problem that CPU has come up with the plan of putting up a water quality testing and treatment laboratory to monitor and correct them. This paper contains the literature needed in the conduct of a water quality testing and treatment in the proposed water laboratory of Central Philippine University. This includes the measurable characteristics, compounds or constituents found in water which affect its quality; the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of wastewater and their sources; the proper sampling techniques for collection, preservation and transport of water samples; the different methods of water analysis; the treatments appropriate to the removal of various forms of water impurities; the basic principles on how to develop a monitoring program to monitor the quality of water and the requirements of a good laboratory operation and management.