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UV LEDs making waves with clean water

Oxford Instruments systems now facilitate water purification technology With World Earth Day last week I’ve decided to make this weeks blog about how new technology is being used to enhance people’s lives in a fundamental way. The UN recognises that clean drinking water is a global issue with over ...

Apr. 25, 2017

By Oxford Instruments plc

$A solution to fracturing water supply and disposal issues$

A solution to fracturing water supply and disposal issues

“Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” –The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Many topics of conversation among oil and gas industry professionals are predictable – oil price trends, the “great shift change” imperiling the available workforce, and production quotas and caps from OPEC. Yet one pressing topic among those developing ...

May 15, 2017

By Fairmount Santrol

The Myth of Heat Illnesses

If you have not already had a safety talk in your workplace about heat stress and related illnesses, you probably will have one in the coming weeks. Summer is around the corner and temperatures are warming up. You will probably hear something about becoming acclimated to the heat slowly, and drinking plenty of water. But if that’s all that you have been told about warm outdoor ...

May 22, 2017

By Safety Compliance Management, Inc. (SCM)

Times are changing: Wastewater as a resource

Times are definitely changing. It used to be that wastewater from whatever source – domestic, agricultural, industrial – was something to collect and pipe away as quickly and efficiently as possible. There was more water coming out of the ground or falling from the sky, so why bother investing time and money cleaning water that had already been used? Now, thanks to issues like ...

May 16, 2017

By LuminUltra Technologies Ltd.

UV Minimises Risks for Major Food Retailers

For many years, one of the UK’s largest food manufacturers has made it their business to be the best at producing all manner of bespoke cooked and raw, ready-to-eat vegetables and carbohydrates for their customers, who include chilled food manufacturers, food-to-go operators and, of course, major supermarkets. Being the best means not only complying with food quality standards set by ...

May 18, 2017

By atg UV Technology

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 ...

Nov. 1, 2013

By Boode Waterwell Systems

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. 6, 2012

By MilliporeSigma

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. 7, 2010

By Industrial Test Systems, Inc.

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. 17, 2012

By EconoPure Water Systems, LLC

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. 20, 2011

By IWA Publishing

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. 18, 2016

By IWA Publishing

Kansas Facility Finds Fast, Reliable Fix to Cavitation Damage

The Hutchinson (Kansas) Water Plant gets its water from 20 wells. The water is pumped out of the wells and into a reverse osmosis water treatment center to purify and ensure safe drinking water. At that point, a portion of the water is taken off from the main line, run through the reverse osmosis system and then mixed back ...

May 11, 2017

By Singer Valve Inc.

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. 16, 2012

By IWA Publishing

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. 8, 2012

By IWA Publishing

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 ...

Dec. 1, 2008

By National Environmental Health Association (NEHA)

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. 10, 2013

By Horizon Technology, Inc.

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. 16, 2010

By Modern Water - Monitoring Division

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. 3, 2015

By Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc

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. 17, 2011

By IWA Publishing

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. 28, 2016

By Metrohm AG

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