Towards the Green Analytics: Design and Development of Sustainable Drinking Water Quality Monitoring System for Shekhawati Region in Rajasthan

Abstract

In rural areas, there is limited monitoring of drinking water quality. Reliable water quality monitoring stations are expensive and require high costs for maintenance and calibration process. In this paper, the development of a sustainable water quality monitoring system is proposed. The green analytics principles were considered for developing the proposed system to reduce the measurement’s time consumption and labor cost. Five water quality parameters [pH, oxidation reduction potential (ORP), dissolved oxygen (DO), electrical conductivity (EC), and temperature] have been measured using the developed system. The overall drinking water quality is measured by the proposed partial least squares regression (PLSR) model. The developed system’s performance is determined by mean average percentage error (MAPE), root-mean-square error (RMSE), and R2. The traceability of water quality sensors is defined with required uncertainty in water quality parameters. The measured uncertainty is 0.002, 0.892, 0.015, 0.029, and 0.017 for pH, EC, DO, ORP, and temperature, respectively. The relation between estimated and predicted water quality parameters (R2 > 0.93) shows that the developed system can be a suitable replacement for traditional water quality monitoring techniques.