Aquatest will be an easy-to-use, low-cost device for testing water in developing countries.
Our vision is that within 10 years, low-cost water testing devices will be in use in 80% of developing countries.
Aquatest video Bringing safe water testing to its source. From design and development through to testing - Aquatest in action.
The support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has enabled us to take this project forward and potentially make a transformational change to the lives of people in the developing world.
Prof. Stephen Gundry
Director of the Water & Health Research Centre
Latest news
The findings of a study led by the Water & Health Research Centre aimed at determining how data on water source quality affect assessment of progress towards the Millennium Development Goal target on access to safe drinking-water has been published by the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation. Read the report (pdf 772kb) and press release.
Hear Stephen Gundry, Aquatest Project Director, speaking on the BBC World Service's More or less programme about new research led by the University of Bristol that suggests official reports overestimate progress towards the United Nations Millennium Development Goal target for access to safe drinking water.
The programme is available to listen to again on BBCiPlayer