Analytical Instruments News
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Save The Date For The IDA Seville Summit On Water And Climate Change, 16-18 October 2023
12/16/2022
"Today, 40 percent of the world's people are affected by water scarcity; 80 percent of wastewater is discharged untreated into the environment, and more than 90 percent of disasters are water-related."
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Precision Insights Can Be Found In Wastewater
12/14/2022
Research from the lab of Fangqiong Ling at Washington University in St. Louis showed earlier this year that the amount of SARS-CoV-2 in a wastewater system was correlated with the burden of disease — COVID-19 — in the region it served.
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Louisiana Wastewater Contains 'Shocking' Amount Of Meth
11/23/2022
The wastewater in a large Louisiana city has been found to be harboring a concerningly high concentration of a dangerous drug.
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IWA Marks World Toilet Day 2022 With Call For SanitAction
11/18/2022
The International Water Association (IWA) is marking UN World Toilet Day, held annually on 19 November to raise awareness of the 3.6 billion people living without access to safely managed sanitation worldwide.
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Vietnam’s Greening Textile And Garment Sector To Boost Exports To EU
11/13/2022
Every year, an estimated 92 million tonnes of textile waste is generated globally and the apparel industry’s global emission is said to increase by 50% by 2030. These are alarming numbers about the state of environmental pollution caused by the textile and garment industry.
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EPA Awards $1M To University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign For COVID-19 Research On Wastewater Systems To Track Current And Future Pandemics
10/19/2022
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $1,000,000 in research grant funding to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to improve wastewater monitoring to rapidly detect the emergence and spread of infectious disease in the current COVID-19 pandemic, and to detect other pathogens that could cause future pandemics.
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Surna Cultivation Technologies Partners With Evoqua Water Technologies to Offer Water Treatment Solutions
10/19/2022
Surna Cultivation Technologies LLC, a leader in controlled environment agriculture (CEA) systems engineering and technologies, and a subsidiary of CEA Industries Inc, is proud to announce another expansion to its products and services offerings to include a portfolio of water treatment solutions.
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EPA Awards $1M For Research On Pathogen Detection In Wastewater Systems
10/18/2022
Pathogens in wastewater can help identify the presence of infectious disease in a community. A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) research team led by CEE professor Thanh Huong (Helen) Nguyen seeks to improve wastewater monitoring to rapidly detect the emergence and spread of infectious disease in the current COVID-19 pandemic and to detect other pathogens that could cause future pandemics.
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CDC Plans To Test National Wastewater For Polio As Community Spread Worsens
9/28/2022
As wastewater analysis rises in prominence, becoming a critical tool to track and combat the spread of disease, it will now be put to use to fight back against the reemergence of a life-threatening virus.
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Preparing For The Next Pandemic: NSF Grants $1M To UB To Develop A Rapid Response System And Build Community Trust
9/27/2022
They introduced genomic sequencing of the coronavirus to Western New York. They sampled wastewater to determine the level of the virus locally. They partnered with local groups to boost vaccinations and share scientific information in user-friendly ways.