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Drinking Water Quality

Drinking water or potable water is water of sufficiently high quality that it can be consumed or used without risk of immediate or long term harm. In most developed countries, the water supplied to households, commerce and industry is all of drinking water standard, even though only a very small ...

Jun. 19, 2011

By IWA Publishing

Drinking water - India

EconoPure Water Systems EconoPure Water Systems (formerly DVX Water Technologies, LLC) designs and manufactures highly economical, scalable, low-fouling membrane systems. The Company leverages the unique low-fouling nanofiltration (“LFNano”) system consisting of a unique membrane element that is designed to avoid particulate fouling, biofouling, and scaling. As the name suggests, ...

Jul. 16, 2012

By EconoPure Water Systems, LLC

The Future of Drinking Water

Predicted future growth in population numbers and rising sea levels mean demand for drinking water will continue to increase just as the natural availability of freshwater decreases. It is likely that brackish groundwater will be an important source of drinking water in the future, but the current methods used to produce fresh water from this source are expensive in terms of their energy use and ...

Oct. 31, 2013

By Boode Waterwell Systems

Drinking Water Quality

The quality of drinking-water is a powerful environmental determinant of health. Drinking-water quality management has been a key pillar of primary prevention for over one-and-a-half centuries and it continues to be the foundation for the prevention and control of waterborne diseases. Water is essential for life, but it can and does transmit disease in countries in all continents – from the ...

Mar. 7, 2012

By IWA Publishing

Drinking Water and Politics

You might be interested in a recent journal paper of mine that focuses on the impact of politics on drinking water. The paper seeks to address a growing lack of historical knowledge in the water industry of how European Union (EU) water policy has developed and been responded to. It also aims to overcome the lack of comparative studies that explore the ...

Apr. 15, 2012

By IWA Publishing

Drinking Water Standards

The most important point of departure for drinking water standards is the World Health Organisation Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality. These are widely used throughout the world with the exception of parts of North America. WHO’s Guidelines have evolved over a period of 50 years from standards to guidelines, reflecting the fact that they have no legal force. The WHO emphasises that it ...

Jun. 16, 2011

By IWA Publishing

Water, water everywhere: But is there enough to drink?

Original story at MIT News At MIT, experts address the challenges of supplying clean, safe water to a growing world population. The challenge of supplying clean, safe drinking water to an expanding world population comes down to money, MIT economist Franklin Fisher ...

Dec. 12, 2013

By MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Biocorrosion in drinking water pipes

Copper is widely used in drinking water distribution systems due to its relatively low cost and favorable mechanical properties. However, copper corrosion may generate copper concentrations exceeding the thresholds prescribed by international drinking water standards. In-situ measurements performed in an actual system found that the copper mass released under flowing water conditions (pipe ...

Feb. 17, 2016

By IWA Publishing

Lead in the environment and in drinking water

Everywhere you look metal lead is in the headlines. The majority of the recent press attention however, has not focused in lead in contaminated water, air, or soil but rather on high concentrations of lead found in toys and children?s jewelry that have been produced in developing countries where lax standards apply. Regardless of the particular source of lead contamination, the fact is lead can ...

Oct. 6, 2010

By Industrial Test Systems, Inc.

Determination of Bisphenol A in Drinking Water

A comprehensive sample preparation and analytical procedure was developed for determining BPA in drinking water. This fast procedure employed materials and techniques selected in part for speed, but also those that would not contribute unwanted artifacts. The use of SPE allowed BPA to be extracted plus concentrated, which may result in greater method sensitivity compared to simple headspace or ...

Jun. 5, 2012

By MilliporeSigma

Are you drinking water that is contaminated?

Why Distilled water by the experts There is a huge need in the world for the purest water possible, to combat the high levels of pollutants and chemicals found in today's water supply. This can be provided by ...

May 17, 2018

By Global CSP

Manganese in Madison’s Drinking Water

Public concern over events of manganese-discolored drinking water and the potential for adverse health effects from exposure to excess manganese reached a high level in 2005. In response, Public Health Madison Dane County, together with the Madison Water Utility, conceived and implemented a public health/water utility strategy to quantify the extent of the manganese problem, determine the ...

Nov. 30, 2008

By National Environmental Health Association (NEHA)

Monitoring Arsenic in Drinking Water

A Cogent OVA5000 online Heavy Metal analyser is being used to ensure compliance with national and company standards for the concentration of arsenic in drinking ...

Jun. 15, 2010

By Modern Water - Monitoring Division

Drinking water application notes

The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) was passed in 1974 to protect the nation's public drinking water supply. The law allowed for the EPA to regulate the amount of certain contaminants that a body of water can contain. The Application Notes listed are designed to extract organic compounds in municipal drinking water for ...

Nov. 9, 2013

By Horizon Technology, Inc.

Drinking Water Analysis Guide

Public Water Systems (PWS), regulated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), provide drinking water to 90% of Americans. Water systems and laboratories testing drinking water for Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) compliance must be certified and must use USEPA approved methods, which are developed by the USEPA, other government agencies, universities, consensus method ...

Aug. 2, 2015

By Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc

Glyphosate and AMPA in drinking water

Carcinogenic or not? The broad-spectrum herbicide glyphosate is used all over the world in agriculture. Alongside farming, the chemical is also used for weed-killing in domestic gardens and in public and private spaces kept free from «vegetal invasion», such as railway tracks. Glyphosate has been used since the 1970s in pesticides and was hitherto thought to be harmless at ...

Sep. 27, 2016

By Metrohm AG

Drinking Water Treatment Process

Most drinking water comes from a surface water source, such as a lake or river, or a groundwater source, such as a well or spring. This water requires treatment before it can be safely consumed; the level to which the water is treated depends on the source of the water and also on federal regulations. In the United States, for example, the Safe Drinking Water Act was created by the Environmental ...

Mar. 15, 2015

By Brentwood Industries, Inc.

Monitoring Nitrates in Drinking Water and Wastewater

Nitrate is present in high levels in wastewater due in part to the high nitrates present in human sewage but also from some types of industrial effluent entering the municipal sewer system. Nitrate is also a very common contaminant in both surface water and ground water. Nitrate occurs naturally in source water as a result of decaying plants. However, there are other manmade sources of ...

Aug. 21, 2016

By Real Tech Inc.

Drinking water in Cuba and seawater desalination

The lack of drinking water has become a problem at world level because, in many places, supplies are very limited and, in other places, their reserves have been drained. At the present time there are estimated to be around two thousand million people that don't have drinking water for several reasons, such as drought, contamination and the presence of saline waters not suitable for human ...

Jan. 29, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers

Natural Disaster Recovery & Drinking Water

Clean water is one of the fundamental pillars of modern civilization, and a major priority for local and municipal government. When disaster – hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes – strikes, one of the first priorities is to rehabilitate water treatment and distribution systems. Water main and pipe breaks, pressure loss, and backflow can all act to introduce external ...

Sep. 6, 2012

By LuminUltra Technologies Ltd.

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