Water quality is an important factor in the provision of safe drinking water. Laboratory facilities for testing water quality are absent in most of rural India. Moreover, the collection, preservation and transportation of millions of samples from rural areas to regions with laboratory facilities is not feasible. Field Test Kits (FTK) address this problem by acting as a screening and identifying platform for the sources which are at risk of contamination. FTKs provide a platform for participatory water quality monitoring, knowledge dissemination and awareness-raising.