DOST installs water monitor in Batangas

THE Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has launched a system to monitor water quality to save and preserve fish and marine life in Batangas river.

Called SENTRY (Sensing Environmental Parameters through Telemetry), the system deploys sensors for real-time automated data acquisition to help avoid fish kill and other adverse effects of poor water quality. The devices are in the form of catamaran-type buoys that gather data on the water’s acidity, turbidity, and total suspended solids or particles larger than two microns.