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Department of Veterinary Medicine

Cambridge Veterinary School
 

Increasing access to water quality tests in low-income communities is a crucial strategy toward achieving global water equality. Recent studies in the Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector highlight the significance of addressing practical challenges in water testing, such as ensuring robustness and effective communication of results.


In response to these challenges, researchers from the Department of Veterinary Medicine have been involved in the introduction of the WaterScope testing kit; an innovative, open-source platform for assessing drinking water quality. 

WaterScope's effectiveness in quantifying E. coli has been rigorously validated through extensive laboratory and field experiments, proving its equivalency to conventional methods. Beyond E. coli detection, this versatile platform has the potential to expand its applications to testing other bacteria, performing colorimetric assays, and analysing clinical samples such as blood and urine.

The team anticipate that WaterScope’s ease-of-use, portability, affordability, robustness, and digital capabilities will significantly accelerate progress toward achieving global water equality and providing a reliable solution for low-income communities around the world.

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Read more about the WaterScope testing kit from their website here