Quantitative drinking water arsenic concentrations in field environments using mobile phone photometry of field kits

The Science of the Total Environment
Ezazul HaqueBenjamin C Bostick

Abstract

Arsenic (As) groundwater contamination is common yet spatially heterogeneous within most environments. It is therefore necessary to measure As concentrations to determine whether a water source is safe to drink. Measurement of As in the field involves using a test strip that changes color in the presence of As. These tests are relatively inexpensive, but results are subjective and provide binned categorical data rather than exact determinations of As concentration. The goal of this work was to determine if photos of field kit test strips taken on mobile phone cameras could be used to extract more precise, continuous As concentrations. As concentrations for 376 wells sampled from Araihazar, Bangladesh were analyzed using ICP-MS, field kit and the new mobile phone photo method. Results from the field and lab indicate that normalized RGB color data extracted from images were able to accurately predict As concentrations as measured by ICP-MS, achieving detection limits of 9.2μg/L, and 21.9μg/L for the lab and field respectively. Data analysis is most consistent in the laboratory, but can successfully be carried out offline following image analysis, or on the mobile phone using basic image analysis software. The accuracy of the fiel...Continue Reading

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