Wireless Sensor Networks for Water Quality Monitoring: A Case of Zambia

Water quality monitoring is a very important undertaking that would ensure safe and clean water being delivered to the end users. Water quality monitoring is essential in controlling physical, chemical and biological characteristics of water. To ensure a complete and an all inclusive monitoring of the underground water and surface water, data sampling need to be carried out at many different locations within and without the study phenomenon. The current water quality monitoring methods in Zambia are mostly sparse and manual. This paper proposes the use of Wireless Sensor Networks to monitor water quality using cheap, effective and efficient sensors that have the ability to sense, process and transmit the sensed data.