Water quality testing in focus

"Water is sometimes sharp and sometimes strong, sometimes acid and sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet and sometimes thick or thin, sometimes it is seen bringing hurt or pestilence, sometimes health - giving, sometimes poisonous. It suffers change into so many natures as are the different places through which it passes. And as the mirror changes with the colour of its subject, so it alters with the nature of the place...

 ~ In time and with water, everything changes". Leonardo da Vinci

The reasons why we need to test whether or not drinking water is safe are obvious. In many parts of the world, poor access to basic water supply & sanitation has devastating consequences on public health. With a focus on the developing world, and in partnership with some of the major organisations operating in the WATSAN field, Wagtech is helping to make widespread, affordable and accurate water quality testing a reality. This testing can take many forms. From simple, low cost testing in a rapid response emergency situation, to more advanced, longer term surveillance, Wagtech has a portable test kit that will allow you to determine the quality of your water, quickly and easily.

As a division of Palintest, Wagtech WTD are able to provide unrivalled service to our customers in all parts of the world. We achieve this through a well-established network of Wagtech regional offices, strategic global stocking centres and local distributors and sales agents. This allows us to supply large numbers of kits, reagents and consumables within hours of an order being placed.

In addition, through our links with regional centres of excellence, universities and technical partners, and coupled with a commitment to continuous product development, Wagtech is constantly researching new ideas, looking for affordable portable water quality testing technologies, striving to provide lower costs and innovative testing solutions.

We encourage partnerships between governments, donors, the UN, NGOs, the private sector and civil society. By manufacturing locally in some countries and investing in the markets to which we sell we are stimulating and empowering local communities, promoting sustainable development.

The past five years have seen impressive sales of Wagtech WTD water test kits to the UN and NGOs. This sector will always provide the bulk of our business on the kits and as such we have a range of measures that offer favourable terms to these organisations. We have special pricing available and reserve significant stock for these customers on a “no commitment” basis. This gives us the ability to respond immediately to the needs of the relief community following a natural disaster, as we did after the Tsunami in 2004, the earthquake in Pakistan in 2005, and more recently after the cholera outrbeak in Zimbabwe in 2009.

A key factor in the success we have enjoyed with these organisations is the additional after-sales support we can offer. A frequent component of our supply programme is the ability to provide local, in-country training on the kits, directly to the end-user. We have a number of highly skilled staff who travel all over the world to carry out training in diverse locations such as Darfur in Sudan, Bande Aceh in Indonesia and Pyongyang in North Korea.

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