WATER TESTING FACILITIES AND SERVICES IN THE COUNTRY

• India operates a tiered network of 2,870 drinking water quality testing laboratories (State/regional/district/sub-division/block/mobile/WTP) under State PHED/RWS Departments, anchored by the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) of the Ministry of Jal Shakti.
• Quality assurance is digitised through the JJM–Water Quality Management Information System (JJM-WQMIS) portal for sample collection, reporting, monitoring and surveillance.
• Community-level surveillance relies on Field Test Kits (FTKs) operated by trained rural women — a flagship example of decentralised, gender-led service delivery.
• Relevant for GS-II (governance, schemes) and GS-III (infrastructure, public health, S&T application).