India, Aug. 7 -- Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) have developed an optical sensing device that can instantly detect a variety of toxicants in water and other biological samples.

Aligned with the Government of India's Jal Jeevan Mission, this innovation addresses a key challenge of ensuring safe drinking water. While the mission aims to provide tap water to every household, maintaining water quality remains a challenge due to different water sources, which may contain heavy metals and other disease-causing bacteria.

To address this challenge of water quality monitoring, the research team has developed a portable point-of-care testing device named E-Eye. Working as an electronic eye, it detects multiple ...