Drinking Water Quality (residual chlorine)

1) Consult your WASH advisor and/or relevant WASH authorities on how to measure free residual chlorine using a pool tester.

2) Ensure that the water samples are collected from all targeted water points or from a representative sample of households.

3) To calculate the indicator's value, divide the number of targeted water points / household water samples with the correct level of free residual chlorine by the total number of assessed water samples. Multiply the result by 100 to convert it to a percentage.

1) Measuring free residual chlorine is cheaper and faster than measuring faecal contamination but is only applicable when drinking water is disinfected either at the water source or by the household itself (with aquatabs or other similar reagent).

2) At the source level, this indicator will give a sense of the quality of the water committees’ work. At the household level, this indicator assesses the correct usage of the reagent.

3) BHA phrases the indicator slightly differently, as "percent of households whose drinking water supplies have a free residual chlorine (FRC) > 0.2 mg/L".