Aquagenx Compartment Bag Test

Water Quality in Haiti

Water Quality Results using the Aquagenx Compartment Bag Test

Collected by DINEPA, Haiti Outreach, and World Vision

Haiti Outreach is a non profit organization based in Pignon, Haiti. Over the past year, they have endeavored to map every water source in three Departments of the country, accounting for nearly half the population's water access. At each source, they used the mWater Surveyor app to record the location, its functional status, and whether it is contaminated with E coli at levels of safety for drinking and washing.

The organization used the Aquagenx Compartment Bag Test (CBT) to test the water sources for E coli contamination. CBT is a portable microbiological test designed for low-cost, affordable water quality monitoring. The mWater interaction for the CBT that makes it easy to record CBT results with minimal user error. Users can even calculate the CBT’s color-change test results simply by touching or clicking the diagram of the compartment bag on smartphones or tablets.

mWater Compartment Bag Test question

This new question type automatically calculates the test result and the risk level

Enumerators can tap the compartments that changed colors

All data and calculated risk level are recorded in the form response

mWater users who monitor water with the Aquagenx CBT can integrate this custom question type into their work in two ways. First and simplest, using the standard form included in the mWater Surveyor app, select "Start a Test" with the add, or plus sign icon at the bottom of the screen. Then select Aquagenx CBT as your water test type. However, you can also include this question in any form built in the mWater Portal by selecting it as a question type.