Jonglei water factory sets up test labs

June 17, 2013 (BOR) – A factory in South Sudan’s Jonglei state has set up a $78,000 laboratory to test water turbidity, minerals, levels of Potential Hydrogen (PH) and conductivity before it is bottled.

The water plant, according to its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) previously relied on testing facilities located in the South Sudan capital, Juba.

“Now we got everything instead of going to Juba. We can just do our own here”, Majur Akoi told Sudan Tribune.

A team of lab technicians, he said, had been trained by a consultant hired to install the equipment. The technicians will test water samples during the production process.

“Every plant should have a laboratory, in order to avoid bacteria and all these in the water”, Akoi stressed.

The test should rhyme with what is on the bottle labels, such as the composition of minerals, irons, including total dissolved solid and PH in the water.

(ST).