Analytical Instruments News

  1. Canada's Nitrogen Footprint Shows Great Regional Variation 9/21/2021

    Reactive nitrogen emissions contribute to greenhouse gases, as well as air and water pollution. For the first time, researchers from McGill University have calculated Canada’s nitrogen footprint (akin to a carbon footprint) – at both national and provincial levels.

  2. Caverion Wins A EUR 41 Million Technical Solutions Project In Tampere Region, Finland - Centralised Wastewater Treatment Is One Of The Region's Most Significant Environmental Investments 8/26/2021

    Caverion has been awarded the electrical and HVAC contracts for the Sulkavuori Central Wastewater Treatment Plant

  3. Detectronic Launches Dynamic Sewer Network Management System 8/19/2021

    Aging infrastructure, urban growth and incidences of extreme weather are escalating the problems experienced by already strained wastewater networks.

  4. Water Detectives: Scientists Test Wastewater For Signs Of Virus 8/17/2021

    For three weeks this summer, scientist Hector Rangel collected samples from wastewater in Caracas, Venezuela. His counterpart in Kampala, Uganda, Brian Lubega, took samples from a stream where open sewers drain into the watershed.

  5. Wastewater Testing Labs Can Detect SARS-CoV-2 In Less Than Four Hours With New Methods 8/16/2021

    A complete workflow developed by Promega Corporation enables wastewater testing laboratories, including public health organizations, to quickly assess the health of entire communities from a single sample.

  6. A Breakthrough In Detecting COVID Variants Through Wastewater Comes Just As Virus Heats Back Up 8/15/2021

    With the unwelcome resurgence of COVID-19, now in the form of variants, people are beginning to mask up (again) and there’s new talk about limitations on indoor activities.

  7. Lifequest Subsidiary, Biopipe, Successfully Demonstrates The Treatment And Reuse Of Sewage Wastewater For The Third Largest Municipality In Turkey And Enters Into Commercial Discussions 7/28/2021

    LIFEQUEST WORLD CORP (LQWC) subsidiary, Biopipe Global has developed the world’s only highly scalable onsite sludge and chemical free sewage wastewater treatment technology.

  8. 120Water Expands Capabilities To Meet Emerging LCRR Market Demand, Grows Customer Base 390% 7/23/2021

    120Water, the nation's leader in water quality and lead management programs, recently launched two new offerings to help water professionals across the country prepare for pending regulatory and infrastructure demand through the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR) and Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework.

  9. SMART Breakthrough In Detection Of SARS-CoV-2 Variant In Wastewater 7/21/2021

    Researchers from the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, alongside collaborators from Biobot Analytics, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have successfully developed an innovative, open-source molecular detection method that is able to detect and quantify the B.1.1.7 (Alpha) variant of SARS-CoV-2.

  10. Two Michigan State Labs Receive Funding For Continued COVID-19 Wastewater Monitoring 7/15/2021

    Two Michigan State University labs will receive nearly $6M for projects to conduct COVID-19 wastewater surveillance and testing.