Chemical disinfectants used to protect municipal drinking water from potentially dangerous microbes can produce disinfection byproducts – oxyhalides (chlorite, chlorate, bromate, etc.) that are harmfu...
More than 100 tons of dead fish have been hauled out of the River Oder, which flows along part of Poland's border with Germany. Officials warned people not to enter the water while the Polish governme...
Happy Earth Day! Proposed by peace activist John McConnel at a UNESCO conference in 1960 and founded on April 22, 1970, by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day demonstrates support for environmental...
This listicle lays out the current state of the PFAS crisis in Europe and the measures being taken to address the issue of these forever compounds in our environment. Per- and polyfluorinated substanc...
The 2022 theme of World Water Day (March 22) is Groundwater - making the invisible, visible. Why is this important? It is estimated there is over a thousand times more water in the ground than on the ...
I don’t know about your experience, but every time I travel abroad, I realize that tap water isn’t the same in different countries. I still wonder each time I smell chlorine or other odor in my glass,...
Successful operation of a nuclear power plant demands careful control and monitoring of water chemistry in primary coolant dosed with boron and lithium, steam generator tubes dosed with ammonia, close...
The COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected us all for the last nearly two years, has without doubt led to fantastic scientific research and breakthroughs, forging the path for new therapeutics and scie...
Wastewater testing for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) can be helpful to public health agencies and government officials as a novel complement to existing COVID-19 surveillance systems. Mo...
The European drinking water directive is changing – after more than 20 years! The current regulations were produced in 1998, which doesn’t seem that long ago, but we were all just starting to get cell...
Exploring the HAAs Workflow Opportunity For contract labs considering adding or expanding their application offering to include the determination of HAAs in drinking water, the question of which instr...
Courtesy of IS-X.Why is plastic — having a lifespan of several hundred years or more — widely used for disposable tools and containers? This is a paradoxical question that is hard to answer, but it pr...
In my last blog post why we disinfect water, I gave a brief history of why disinfection of drinking water prior to consumption is necessary. It is a positive process step to stop life-threatening dise...
Water is nature’s greatest resource, and clean water is the giver of life and ultimately is the reason we exist on this spinning rock in the sky we call Earth.As we exist now, there are robust procedu...
Wastewater (i.e., sewage) testing for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) can be helpful to public health agencies and government officials as a novel complement to existing COVID-19 surveilla...
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination is still a growing area of concern in all areas of the environment. The presence of these substances in drinking water is one of the most impor...
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted public health and the worldwide economy. Converging evidence from the current pandemic, previous outbreaks and controlled experiments indicates that SARS-Co...
Ion chromatography (IC) is one of the best methods for analyzing anions in drinking water. IC allows for multiple ions in one sample to be identified and quantified using one technique with little to ...
The average person consumes approximately 58 gallons of water every year. It is essential that we have regulations in place to ensure that our water is safe to drink. Volatile organic compounds, or VO...
Monitoring of various water sources, such as surface water, groundwater and drinking water, for anions is critical to protecting public health and ensuring a safe and clean environment. As demand for ...
Earlier this year, we had the opportunity to meet with members of the Chemistry Department from a reputed university. The team was in the process of setting up a new laboratory and needed a water puri...
The quality of ultrapure water used in the semiconductor industry is of great importance to avoid the contamination of electronic devices. Ion chromatography methods for determining inorganic anions a...
Every year in my annual Spring Cleaning, I sort through my closets for donations. There are always those “two-sizes too small” suits and dress clothes in the back of the closet, representing those unr...
Now you can automate sample preparation for the analysis of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water by EPA method 537.1 and method 533. We are all in the market to support laborat...
The characterization of the volatile fraction of a liquid or solid sample is definitely a field of gas chromatography coupled to headspace sampling technique. Static or dynamic or through SPME enrichm...
I sat down with Federico Dall’Acqua, LC-MS specialist at Veritas, to discuss how Thermo Scientific Orbitrap mass analyzer technology is being used in water and wastewater treatment facilities which se...
Semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs) are generated as byproducts from a wide range of industrial processes and have been linked to a number of health issues, including cancer. These substances remai...
During a recent search for a new apartment, I was presented with some sharply contrasting options. One had a balcony overlooking the carport and dumpsters, while the other had a view of umbrella-shade...
Governmental agencies around the world are charged with ensuring the safety of drinking water for their respective populations. In the developed world, access to clean drinking water can be taken for ...
If you search “lead in public school drinking water” you may see news every day on either lead contamination or actions taken in a particular state to measure lead levels in school drinking water. In ...
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