Water Quality Technician
You test and treat the water that a village actually drinks, and you sign off on whether it is safe today.
Try the work before you choose it
Is this village's water safe to drink today?
12 minutes · uses Grade 9 Ratio & proportion
What the day actually looks like
- Drive a route of five or six community tanks and wells
- Run chlorine, turbidity and bacterial tests on site
- Calculate and add the dose, then re-test before you leave
- Log every reading — the log is the legal record
- Explain results to a village chief who is not a chemist
The school topics it actually uses
These are not adjacent or vaguely related. They are the specific topics the job uses on an ordinary day.
How people get in
A 6–12 month technical certificate, or on-the-job training with an NGO or a provincial water authority. Many technicians start as field assistants at 18.
What it pays
Entry roles commonly start around $250–400/month in Cambodia, rising with certification.
Demand
Steady — every provincial water scheme and rural NGO needs testing staff.
Pay and pathway figures are indicative ranges gathered for this prototype, not verified labour-market data. A production version would source them from national statistics offices and employer partners.