Water Quality Testing and Surveillance at Anganwadi Centres

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The resource focuses on water-quality testing and surveillance at Anganwadi Centres, which are important community facilities serving children and families. The accessible Jal Jeevan Mission handbook includes AWCs in its water-quality monitoring framework and recommends testing at drinking-water taps or mid-day meal kitchen points. At least one sample per month is recommended. Where chlorination is used, chemical monitoring includes turbidity and free residual chlorine. Where free residual chlorine is absent, bacteriological monitoring includes fecal or thermotolerant coliforms and total coliforms. The handbook also recommends using Field Test Kits for testing turbidity and free residual chlorine at prescribed points. If free residual chlorine is zero or the result does not conform to the prescribed BIS 10500 limit, the sample should be sent to a laboratory for bacterial testing, including Total Coliform and E. coli or thermotolerant coliforms. This surveillance approach helps identify potential contamination at locations used by children and supports early escalation to laboratory confirmation and remedial action. The document is therefore relevant to Gram Panchayats, Rural Water Supply/PHED departments, health and education stakeholders, field testers and laboratory personnel involved in protecting drinking-water quality at AWCs.