Water is one of the basic resources required for human survival. However, pollution of water has become a global problem. 2.4 billion people worldwide live without any form of water sanitation. This work focuses on case study of water pollution in Pakistan where only 20% of the population has an access to good-quality water. Drinking bad-quality water causes diseases such as hepatitis, diarrhea and typhoid. Moreover, people living close to the industrial areas are more prone to drinking polluted water and catching diseases as a result. Yet, there is no system that can monitor the quality of water or help in disease prevention. In this work, an Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled water quality monitoring system is developed that works as a stand-alone portable solution for monitoring water quality accurately and in real time. The real-time results are stored in a cloud database. The public web portal shows these results in the form of data sheets, maps and charts for analyzing data. Further, this data along with the collected data of past water quality is used to generate machine learning (ML) models for prediction of water quality. As a consequence, a model for prediction of water quality is trained and tested on a test set. The predictions on the test set resulted in a mean squared error (MSE) of 0.264.
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