Drinking and utility water quality determination, physicochemical, chemical and microbiological analyses.
Water is indispensable for life. It is vital that water, without which life cannot exist or continue, is fit for health. The healthy, high-quality and sufficient supply of something so essential is regarded as a measure of quality of life.
The careless use of clean water resources, which are steadily declining because of human activity, harms the quality of life of every living thing in nature and also affects human life adversely, directly or indirectly.
The World Health Organization (WHO) treats water as a priority for quality of life in all its programmes for protecting and improving the health of the world's population. The standards set for drinking and utility water by international bodies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the European Union (EU) have been adopted by many countries. In Türkiye, recent amendments have brought drinking water standards and regulations into line with those bodies
All authorities issue various international documents on water policy and water management principles so that water reaches people in a healthy, high-quality and safe condition.
Countries regulate their water management in line with the national water legislation they build on this basis. Türkiye also has legal arrangements covering water supply and inspection.
As agriculture and industry develop alongside urbanisation and rapid population growth, demand for water in Türkiye continues to rise, and difficulty in securing clean water grows by the day.
In our cities, drinkable and usable water is supplied from springs and groundwater and, to a large extent, treated from rivers, dams and lakes.
In recent years, the mains water in our large cities has also come into question in terms of microbiological quality. According to Ministry of Health data, nationwide 17% of mains water and 31.4% of spring water sampled in provincial centres, and 36.6% of mains water and 36.3% of spring water sampled in districts, failed to comply with the standards.
Alka Laboratories carries out studies to determine the quality of water supplied by municipalities and of drinking and utility water in private sector organisations.
In accordance with the provisions of the relevant regulation, Alka Laboratories can perform the full range of physicochemical, chemical, biological and microbiological parameters in water to determine the quality of drinking and utility water.
Our laboratories serving drinking and utility water;
Microbiology Laboratory
• Coliform Bacteria Count, Faecal Enterococci, Faecal Coliform, Total Coliform, Bacteria Count, Escherichia coli (E-Coli), Salmonella, Beggiatoa, Cryptosporidium Oocysts etc.
Mobile Laboratory
• Sampling (Water Dispenser, Carboy, Drinking Water Tank, Mains Water)
• Measurement (pH, Temperature, Electrical Conductivity, Salinity, Dissolved Oxygen etc.)
General Chemistry Laboratory
• Titrimetric (Hardness etc.)
• Gravimetric (Total Dissolved Solids etc.)
• Sensory (Taste, Odour)
Instrumental Laboratory
• Spectrophotometric (Colour, Turbidity, Heavy Metals, Anions etc.)
• Chromatographic (PAH, Pesticides, VOC, Acrylamide, Vinyl Chloride, THM, Trichloroethylene, Tetrachloroethylene, Epichlorohydrin etc.)