Wastewater Instrumentation News
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Detectronic Awarded A Place On Severn Trent Water’s Level Monitor Framework
3/25/2022
Wastewater monitoring specialists, Detectronic, have been awarded a place on the Level Monitor Framework with Severn Trent Water (STW).
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Low-Cost Sensing Assists Climate Adaptation, Says IDTechEx
3/24/2022
‘What gets measured gets managed’ is a well-known adage in business, but could it also be applied to mitigating the effects of climate change? The recently published IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report emphasizes the importance of adaptation alongside emission reduction.
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Faster-Acting Graphene Sensor Detects Opioid Metabolites In Wastewater
3/24/2022
A sensor that detects opioid byproducts in wastewater faster and cheaper than current commonly used methods has been developed by U.S. National Science Foundation grantee researchers.
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Agencies Collaborate To Launch Wastewater Surveillance Dashboard
3/23/2022
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), Southern Nevada Health District, Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) and Desert Research Institute (DRI) are partnering to detect early increases of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID) and emerging variants in Southern Nevada through wastewater surveillance.
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Ambitious Federal Wastewater Sampling Plan Hits Privacy, Logistical Issues In Curbing COVID-19
3/22/2022
The Centers For Disease Control And Prevention (CDC) and individual states have relied increasingly on wastewater sampling data to determine the prevalence of COVID-19 throughout the country.
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Recent Research Analyzes The Chemical Composition Of Fracking Wastewater
3/16/2022
The composition of fracking wastewater and the ramifications of recycling or reusing wastewater produced by the fracking process have not been closely scrutinized.
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Collo Measures The Quality Of Liquid Processes In Real-Time
3/3/2022
Collo’s technology is based on RF signals that can penetrate any liquid, machine learning, and sophisticated edge computing analysis. It is a simple-to-use solution that adapts to any liquid process automatically and results in an eight-dimensional multiparameter, real-time analysis that makes it possible to adjust the process immediately when there is a quality issue.
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UK Patent Office Grants Detectronic Patent For LIDoTT Technology
2/23/2022
The LIDoTT, a multi-sensor monitoring system designed and developed by wastewater monitoring specialists, Detectronic, has been granted patent number GB2591274, which covers open channel fluid level monitoring apparatus comprising two level sensors with overlapping monitoring ranges.
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Rising To The Sewer Pollution Challenge
2/23/2022
The UK government has left water companies in England in no doubt that they need to do more to protect the environment from pollution.
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Evidence Suggests COVID-19 Is Not Transmitted Through Wastewater
2/16/2022
There is no proof that people can contract COVID-19 from wastewater, according to a report by Mark Sobsey, PhD, of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.