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...
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 ...
Selling bottled water is big business with a global market estimated at 280 billion liters in 2014 and consumers in the USA averaging consumption of 128 liters per person per year. The absence of both...
While the story is still developing for lead contamination in drinking water at Flint, Michigan (to see how it can happen, download the lead contamination infographic), we heard that chromium (VI), or...
Being a new resident in the United States, installing water filters on my water faucet was one of the first things that I had to do after moving into my apartment. Filtration is truly one of the most ...
You have heard of air pollution, water pollution, and environmental pollution, but have you heard of nutrient pollution? You heard it right. Nutrients can also pollute our environment. Due to human ac...
Take a deeper look and what you’re really swimming with. #AnalyteGuruWhile swimming or exercising in water has great benefits, the harmful effects are more than just eye irritation (due to chlorinatio...
With your long, stressful work week coming to a close, what better way to welcome the weekend than with a celebration to recognize Earth Day! Think you know everything there is to know about our plane...
If you’ve been watching the presidential candidate debates over the past several weeks and news over the past several years, you’ve probably heard the term ‘fracking’ come up at least once. Fracking i...
Access to safe drinking water is essential to health and is a basic human right (see the World Health Organization’s Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality). A key part of the water purification proces...
Is my tap water contaminated with lead? If it is, should I be concerned? How did the lead get into my tap water in the first place? These are questions that the residents of Flint, Michigan are curren...
The recent report by the US EPA Draft Assessment of the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas on Drinking Water Resources (link to EPA study) states in the executive summary that “...
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