QWATER

A Minor Project Synopsis Submitted to

Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal

Towards Partial Fulfillment for the Award of

Bachelor of Technology
(Information Technology)

Department of Information Technology

Acropolis Institute of Technology & Research, Indore

July-Dec 2022
 1. Abstract
It is hard to determine the quality of water with human eyes. There is a need to instantly assess the pollution
level of any water sample, or body, caused due to solar radiation, domestic, industrial and agricultural
activities.

2. Introduction of the Project

Water colour anomaly usually indicates that, when the water body is polluted, the water colour can indirectly
reflect the quality of the water body. The anomalous colours of a water body usually
include red, black, and grey, but not green, which is the colour of a eutrophic water body.

This project uses the widely accepted hue angle of clean water, and instantly assesses the water color
anomaly of a given sample of water. This assessment predicts the quality of water, and can be used to
determine its suitability for desired use.

Furthermore, water colour anomaly usually results from illegal discharge and dumping of pollutants, such as
industrial wastewater, industrial solid waste, and domestic waste, leading to a significantly higher
concentration of pollutants in the surface water than that in an ordinary natural water body; this imposes
serious harm on aquatic organisms and the surrounding ecology and environment.

Thus, this project can also be used by environment conscious people to check the water quality as a measure
of pollution of local water bodies.

3. Objective
To make a user friendly app that can be used offline. Which needs to analyze the image of any water body or
sample and determine its quality. To use the water colour anomaly as a parameter to determine the pollution
of water. Which is caused by solar radiation, illegal discharge and dumping of pollutants, such as industrial
wastewater, industrial solid waste, and domestic waste,

This project can check the sample water’s suitability for desired use. Also, it can be used by environment
conscious people to assess the pollution of local water bodies by determining its water colour anomaly.

4. Scope
This app is applicable everywhere over small scale by any user to determine the quality of any water body.

5. Study of Existing System

The existing system uses satellite images to assess the water color anomaly.
Several satellites orbit the earth with sensors that could be used to estimate water quality parameters.
This current system of determining the water color anomaly of large water bodies uses Satellite images, it
fails to provide a feasible solution to the general public and has to account for various complex factors.
Water quality monitoring is very important to obtain quantitative information about the characteristics of
water and identify changes or trends in water quality over time, as well as to respond to emerging water
quality problems, such as the identification of sediment, harmful algae blooms, salinity, dissolved organic
matter and dissolved oxygen levels.
Disadvantage of measuring and monitoring water quality by satellite is that it can be very expensive, time
consuming and not feasible for use by general public.

Source - Research Paper “Recognition of Water Colour Anomaly by Using Hue Angle and Sentinel 2
Image” by - Yelong Zhao , Qian Shen , Qian Wang , Fan Yang , Shenglei Wang , Junsheng Li , Fangfang
Zhang and Yue Yao.

6. Project Description
Water colour anomaly usually results from illegal discharge and dumping of pollutants, such as industrial
wastewater, industrial solid waste, and domestic waste, leading to a significantly higher concentration of
pollutants in the surface water than that in an ordinary natural water body; this imposes serious harm on
aquatic organisms and the surrounding ecology and environment.To avoid the impacts of these uncertain
factors, this study adopted the hue angle of a water body to recognise water colour anomaly, and we
confirmed that the water colour was anomalous when the hue angle of the water body was greater than
230.958°.
This project uses this parameter to judge a sample of water.

The user friendly app makes it feasible for the general public to access this feature. Furthermore, the
application requires no internet connection to run.

7. Methodology/Planning of the Project work

● Determine a parameter for checking the water colour anomaly.
● Create an app for taking the image of sample water as input
● Determine the RGB value of the image of different points of the image and calculate its mean. Using
ML, Python.
● Convert the RGB value to hue angle.
● Check against the parameter to determine if the sample is clean or not.
● Show the output to the user through the app.

8. Expected Outcome
The project may be considered complete if it is easily downloadable, can take pictures properly and
recognise its colour ,calculate its hue angle and display the result.

9. Resources and Limitations

It uses concepts of hue angle , saturation, image colour recognition.

FLUTTER, PYTHON, Computer Vision (Panda and openCV).

As the app uses image of water as a measure to calculate hue angle and estimate its quality , it is not that
precise. It doesn’t use any physical parameters to measure the quality of water. We cannot decide surely
about its drinkablity.
 10. Conclusion
It is difficult to estimate the quality of water through normal eyes ,so there is a need to estimate it precisely.
Several satellites orbit the earth with sensors that could be used to estimate water quality parameters.
This current system of determining the water color anomaly of large water bodies uses Satellite images, it
fails to provide a feasible solution to the general public and has to account for various complex factors.To
deal with this problem an app is developed which uses image of the water to determine its quality, using the
image of the water sample clicked through the app, we determine the RGB value of the image, then convert
it to hue angle. We use the hue angle of anomalous water as a parameter to check whether the given sample
of water is clean or not.

11. References.
Source -
https://opg.optica.org/DirectPDFAccess/39CF4592-ED3D-4037-930A5C034FA14B43_89294/oe-14-8-3099
.pdf?da=1&id=89294&seq=0&mobile=no#:~:text=Water%2Dleaving%20radiance%20(Lw),as%20chloroph
ylla%20concentration%20%5B1%5D.

Color detection - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU07jbfe9dU