Water Quality Monitoring with Notifications System

Water is an essential natural resource that is fundamental to both human and animal health and more than 88% of South African households have access to water. Although South Africa has one of the cleanest water systems globally but there are still many factors causing water pollution. Industries produce a lot of waste that can affect the water PH, sometimes the water reservoir is exposed to dust, the Agric sector causes soil erosion due to its physical soil irritation or not enough care is taken by the departmental authorities. Although there's effort in urban areas by municipalities to purify and monitor the water used for consumption, the existing mechanism used is not as automated and reliable, even worse in rural areas no proper care is taken or no genuine mechanisms put in place. In this paper, Water Quality with Notifications System is presented to better the lives of the people by providing an easy and simple mechanism to know the water quality stored in the reservoir. It holds different sensors for getting water quality parameters namely PH Sensor, Nitrate Sensor, Turbidity Sensor, Water Level Detection Sensor. The system gets water parameters from the sensors through Raspberry Pi. It is a portable system and no monitoring authority is required at the water source 24 hours a day. Also, it is a mobile and portable system that is connected to an android smart phone.