Water is a support medium for multiple microbial growth. Presence of water is advantageous when water is required as a medium to support chemical activities of certain strains of yeasts. These chemical activities provide beer and bread. Hence water microbiology which relates to microorganisms that live in water, or can be transported from one habitat to another by water, becomes very important. Additionally presence or growth of certain types of bacteria in impure water accelerates digestion of certain poison types from water. On the other side, certain harmful bacteria can be really dangerous to human health and can even be life threatening. This is the case of bacteria living in intestinal tracts of humans and other warm blooded animals, such as Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Shigella and Vibrio which can be dangerous when they enter and contaminate water through feces. Thus water samples need to be tested for determining potability and sanitary quality. This is easily achievable through HiMedia products which include a wide range of Selective Culture Media for detecting organisms in drinking water and waste water.
Drinking Water
Health and safety concerns are hugely affected through quality of drinking water or potable water. The assurance that drinking water is safe affects social and cultural standards in modern society thereby determining the aspects for control and prevention of microbial waterborne diseases. Through Culture Media for Total Plate Count, HiMedia provides easy and safe methods to achieve the objective of assessing water quality.
Recreational Water
Water sports and recreational activities are hugely popular and range from swimming and bathing to deep diving etc. Such activities also require safe water and thus affect safety and health. Even with modern water purification methods, there can be dangers like water being polluted with coliforms which is often caused through contamination from fecal matter, effluent run-off from farmland etc. which often happens during rainfall. To ensure safety, HiMedia brings out a variety of culture media and other laboratory kits and aids to detect each type of microorganism in recreational water.
Waste Water
Laboratory tests to detect and enumerate indicator organisms, like coliform group, rather than pathogens, is a prime indicator of suitability of water for various uses. Coliform presence shows contamination of water bodies through feces. The methods or tests are designed to indicate the degree of contamination with wastes. These help in studying the biochemical reactions and other characteristics including cultural response of this group of microbes. The membrane filter technique is an assured technique comparable to the multiple-tube fermentation test for detection of this group. It involves direct plating of the water sample for detection and enumeration of coliforms. These methods like membrane filter procedure enables direct count of coliform colonies. The HiMedia catalog offers a variety of culture media for identification and enumeration tests for coliforms such as presumptive, confirmatory and completed tests. Another indicator of contamination through feces is the fecal streptococci presence in water. HiMedia provides a range of chromogenic dehydrated culture media for membrane filter technique as well as for detection of fecal streptococci.
Water Testing Kits
Drinking water safety is paramount for a safe life and health. To ensure that potable drinking water is free of contamination, HiMedia has Ready Water Testing Kits for the speedy and accurate detection of the potability of drinking water. In order to easily detect microbes in potable water, we provide Test & B-Sure range, Simple–Rapid Tests for E.Coli, Citrobacter, Salmonella, Vibrio, Shigella, Enterococci, Klebsiella, Pseudomonas, Enterobactor etc. as Microbial Testing Kits. Our product catalog has a full range of solutions for pathogenic detection in potable and bioprocessed water as well.