drinking water compliance Articles
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Removal and degradation of glyphosate in water treatment: a review
Glyphosate is a broad spectrum, non-selective herbicide, widely used for the post-emergence control of annual and perennial weeds in a variety of applications. Although of low toxicity, its presence in drinking water is undesirable and can cause drinking water compliance failure in the EU if found at concentrations >0.1 μg L−1. Treatment methods such as ozonation and ...
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Impact of European Water Framework Directive Article 7 on Drinking Water Directive compliance for pesticides: challenges of a prevention-led approach
Article 7 of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) promotes a prevention-led approach to European Drinking Water Directive (DWD) compliance for those parameters that derive from anthropogenic influences on raw water quality. However, the efficacy of pollution prevention interventions is currently uncertain and likely to be variable, which makes absolute compliance with the drinking water ...
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An index model for evaluating water safety plans in the Philippines
Developing a water safety plan (WSP) is now a requirement for all service providers of drinking water in the Philippines. To assist compliance with the Philippine Department of Health (DOH), this study develops an index model that the DOH can use for evaluating WSPs and covers the WSPs of 14 water districts and 11 health care facilities. The WSP Index model was developed using a nine-step ...
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Coping with climate change in Amsterdam – a watercycle perspective
Amsterdam has the ambition to develop as a competitive and sustainable European metropolis. Water and Amsterdam are closely related, and water and climate change are closely related. Therefore, to be sustainable and economically strong, it is necessary for Amsterdam to anticipate the changes in climate that will take place in the Netherlands during the coming decades. Waternet, the watercycle ...
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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 ...
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Manganese in Surface Water Sources
Manganese is one of the most abundant metals on the earth’s surface and various forms of it can be found in air, in soil, and in water. It doesn’t occur naturally in a pure state; oxides, carbonates and silicates are the most important manganese-containing minerals. When Manganese forms compounds in the environment with oxygen, sulfur (S), and chlorine, the resultant compounds are ...
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What Are New Zealand Drinking Water Standards?
Drinking water standards specify the desired quality standards for water used for drinking purposes. The Drinking-water Standards for New Zealand (DWSNZ) is reinforced by Section 69A of the Health Act 1986 which advocates for the provision of potable drinking water to people of New Zealand and that the suppliers observe compliance with the desired drinking water standards. The DWSNZ was developed ...
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Shimadzu Guide to US EPA Method 8260 for analysis of volatile organic compounds in groundwater and solid waste
Environmental contamination has been at the forefront of government policy and regulation since the US EPA was established in 1970. Over the years the US EPA has developed, published, and updated multiple methods for analysis of environmental pollutants, and single-quadrupole gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS) has long been the technique of choice for determination of volatile organic ...
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AD26 System Performance – Iron / Manganese - Confidential Client - California
In the early 2004, AdEdge was engaged by Pacific Advanced Civil Engineers (PACE) to devise a treatment alternative for manganese and iron removal for a public water system in southern California. This high demand water supply well was yielding between 180 to 220 gpm. The needs were imminent as the currently designed system was not achieving compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act ...
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Ensuring safe drinking water case study
Challenge: A state environmental agency contracted with Antea Group to assist in the execution of a state-wide clean drinking water program. Program objectives included the development of an efficient and standardized program to monitor for chemical and biological contaminants across more than 6,500 public water systems. Solution: Antea Group developed a comprehensive sample ...
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Water intake protection system
Introduction One of the very first steps in any drinking and clean Water Treatment Plant (WTP) is the abstraction of water from a water source. Typical water sources used for these applications include boreholes, springs, rivers, reservoirs, lakes and the sea. Each water source presents a specific set of challenges and characteristics yet they may all be subject to anthropogenic pollution ...
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Ion ScaleBuster Water Conditioning - Office Building - Case Study
OVERVIEW Following a public tender in 2005 for social housing, ION ScaleBuster® water conditioner was chosen for a pilot as the water treatment required to solve corrosion and scaling problems for all buildings in the headquarters of the CPAM (Caisse Primaire d'Assurance Maladie). WATER SYSTEM CHALLENGES According to the public tender, apart from proven scale and corrosion prevention, the ...
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New Zealand Drinking Water Standards
The availability of safe drinking water is an essential requirement for all New Zealanders, irrespective of their status. The NZ Drinking Water Standards, as set by the Ministry of Health, provide requirements for drinking water safety by stipulating; (1) maximum amounts of substances or organisms or contaminants or residues that may be present in drinking-water, (2) criteria for demonstrating ...
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Aging Water Infrastructure in the US
With pipeline systems crumbling, decentralized treatment makes sense Water systems in the United States already are adapting to erratic climate conditions, skyrocketing demand, and a host of other pressures that by all indicators are continuing to increase in severity. One of the biggest challenges, though, has to do with the condition of water infrastructure in the U.S. One tool to gauge the ...
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One process removes arsenic & iron from water in small Utah town
The Safe Drinking Water Act brought with it tough arsenic compliance standards, forcing cities large and small to comply with a maximum contaminant level of 10 parts per billion (ppb) or face stiff fines and even the potential shutdown of wells. Smaller towns such as Cannonville, Utah, face the most difficult challenge, due to manpower and budget constraints. Cannonville turned to Filtronics, ...
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Newark Scrambles to Get Lead out of Drinking Water
Mayor announces plan that will replace 18,000 underground lead service pipes in New Jersey’s largest city Aging, outmoded, sometimes-dangerous water infrastructure is a big problem for 58,000 individual municipalities in America, and, to make things more difficult, there is no centralized body in charge of the problem. In 2017, the fitness of our nation’s water infrastructure ...
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Reference: Outstanding technology delivers outstanding potable water
Outstanding technology delivers outstanding potable water High-tech comes to the Sauerland region: To supply potable water, Stadtwerke Sundern uses state-of-the-art technology. When the time came to modernise their three waterworks, the first-class quality of ProMinent's products and systems was the deciding factor. Key figures Annual supply of 1.3 million cubic metres to around 30,000 ...
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Bacteriological water quality compliance and root cause analysis: an industry case study
Drinking water in England and Wales exhibits high compliance with quality regulations. Severn Trent Water (STW) rarely experiences quality failures, yet approximately half of those that do occur are for bacteriological parameters. There were 218 bacteriological non-compliances across the STW region between January 2008 and December 2011. Thirty nine percent of these were from water treatment ...
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PUB Mobile Lab Application - Case Study
PUB is Singapore’s national water agency and manages its water supply, water catchment and used water in an integrated way. By investing in research and development and new technologies PUB has developed a robust and diversified water supply strategy with the Four National Taps. The Four National Taps are: Water from local catchment Imported water Reclaimed water or NEWater ...
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Potable tank mixing & THM removal - Case study
Topics: potable, THM reduction, TTHM, stratification/water age, chloramine Overview: This tank is a multi-leg, torus-bottom tank with a capacity of 300,000 gallons. Overall tank height is 84 ft.; the wet riser height is 49 ft. and the height of the bowl is 35 ft. The maximum fill rate is 560 GPM, and typical inflow is estimated at 300,000 GPD. The water source for the treatment plant is a ...
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