Each September 18 is World Water Quality Control Day 2024. This anniversary aims to encourage the people of all cities and towns on the planet to exercise control, preserve and clean the water in your area and protect it from all possible sources of contamination.
About the 71% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water and 99.9% of the Earth’s future depends on it. But only 2.5% is drinkable, so it is important that national and municipal governments, in addition to citizens, monitor its quality in their communities.
Nasty raise awareness about the role of water in the worldthe American Clean Water Foundation (ACWF) invites the world’s population to check and monitor its quality between September 18 and December 18 from a place that will be indicated earlier, depending on where they live, and send the results to the website of the site to send World Water Quality Day.
Water monitoring volunteers around the world
After all, participants do not have to be experts in this field They receive a kit with all the necessary elements to carry out the checks and the relevant instructions. Each participant must provide a series of important data resulting from monitoring according to 4 parameters:
- Temperature
- Dissolved oxygen content
- Acidity
- Cloudiness
In 2003, 24 countries participated in the first Water Monitoring Daythat ACWF organized in collaboration with the International Water Association. But every year, more people from virtually every corner of the planet are interested in participating.
What happens to the water we drink?
There is one in every country certain monitoring of drinking water. In Spain, this is one of the most controlled foods and is subject to permanent health monitoring from its collection in the natural environment until it reaches the consumer’s tap.
He water is continuously monitored at various points along the route, from collection (watersheds), through treatment treatments to its distribution, whether in treatment plants, distribution networks or urban and rural consumption.
The water is permanently monitored:
- Periodic monitoring of the measures taken to protect the exploited resource.
- Checking the operation of facilities (pipes, etc.)
- Analysis carried out in different areas and based on identified hazards in water production and distribution systems.
A periodic research into the safety level of production and distribution facilities. And possible vulnerabilities in delivery systems are also being looked for, especially in larger distribution units.
Control and protection measures must comply with the provisions of the European Directive (EU) 2020/2184 relating to the quality of water intended for human consumption and with national and municipal regulations.
- Set up sampling and analysis programs at various locations, both at production and distribution facilities.
- Guarantee the reliability of the analysis results.
- Check its physicochemical and bacteriological quality, that is, that it does not contain contaminating microorganisms and that it contains a sufficiently low content of substances that may be harmful to health, such as hydrocarbons, chlorine, heavy metals, nitrites, etc.
- Monitor and evaluate production, storage and distribution facilities (pipes, connections, valves, tanks, etc.).
- Place water monitoring under the responsibility of a person responsible for production and distribution.
- Make decisions regarding administrative actions such as authorizations, non-conformity management, etc.
- Inform communities and consumers about water quality in every area in a truthful and transparent manner.