{"id":153749,"date":"2021-12-16T13:06:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T07:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=153749"},"modified":"2021-12-16T13:06:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T07:36:40","slug":"jal-jeevan-mission-launches-innovation-challenge-for-portable-water-testing-devices","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/jal-jeevan-mission-launches-innovation-challenge-for-portable-water-testing-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Jal Jeevan Mission launches innovation challenge for portable water testing devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>National Jal Jeevan Mission has launched an innovation challenge in partnership with the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade to develop portable devices for water testing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aim:<\/strong> The challenge aims to ensure that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">water sources are tested<\/span> at various locations, at different levels; thereby, helping the policy framers to design programs that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">address the water contamination issues<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Need of this challenge:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The drinking water supply in rural areas is from both the groundwater (80%) and surface water (20%) sources. However, due to the depleting groundwater level, especially in arid and semi-arid regions, the use of surface water is on the rise.<\/li>\n<li>For both groundwater and surface water-based rural drinking water supply systems, it is important to measure relevant area-specific contaminations to ensure access to potable water.<\/li>\n<li>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Uniform Drinking Water Quality Protocol, 2019<\/span> has also specified some important parameters to be monitored for assuring portability of drinking water as per BIS IS 10500:2012 and subsequent amendments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: National Jal Jeevan Mission has launched an innovation challenge in partnership with the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade to develop portable devices for water testing. Aim: The challenge aims to ensure that water sources are tested at various locations, at different levels; thereby, helping the policy framers to design programs that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/jal-jeevan-mission-launches-innovation-challenge-for-portable-water-testing-devices\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jal Jeevan Mission launches innovation challenge for portable water testing devices<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-153749","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}