Water quality parameter

Ammonia testing in Ethiopia

Ammonia in raw water is an early sign of sewage or animal waste reaching the source. It also matters operationally, because ammonia binds chlorine into combined chlorine: a supply carrying ammonia burns through its dose and still shows a weak free residual. Palintest measures ammonia photometrically with tablet reagents.

Why it matters in Ethiopia

When a free chlorine residual keeps collapsing on a line that used to hold it, ammonia is one of the first things to rule out. Testing ammonia alongside free and total chlorine explains the chlorine demand instead of only recording it.

12 products in the Wagtech Trading catalog measure Ammonia.

Instruments and kits

Reagents and consumables

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