Water quality parameter
Nitrate testing in Ethiopia
Nitrate in a water source usually points to sewage, latrines or fertiliser reaching the aquifer. It is stable and it travels, so it marks contamination that has already arrived rather than contamination that might. Palintest measures nitrate photometrically, and the same kits normally carry nitrite on an adjacent range.
Why it matters in Ethiopia
The WHO guideline value for nitrate is 50 mg/L as NO3. Hand dug wells sited close to pit latrines are the common case here, and nitrate is the test that shows the connection before a microbiological result comes back.
7 products in the Wagtech Trading catalog measure Nitrate.
Instruments and kits
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Reagents and consumables
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How to run this test
Step-by-step Palintest instructions for the photometer test, with a picture for each step. The sheets show the Lumiso photometer. The same tablets and steps work on the Photometer 7100 and 7500. To choose the test on those photometers, see the Photometer 7500 (Bluetooth) manual and the Photometer 7100 manual.
Nitrate, low rangePDF, 2 pages, 298 KB
Nitrate, medium rangePDF, 2 pages, 309 KB
Nitrate/30NPDF, 182 KB
Instrument manuals
- Wagtech Potalab+ manual (PDF on palintest.com, 6.4 MB)
- Palintest Lumiso Expert manual (PDF on palintest.com, 3.9 MB)
All manuals and test instructions for Palintest instruments and Wagtech kits