Drinking Water News and Headlines

  1. U.S. EPA Awards California $6,137,000 To Test For Lead In Drinking Water At Childcare Centers 8/6/2020

    Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced an award of $6,137,000 in grant funding to assist the California Department of Social Services with identifying sources of lead in drinking water in childcare centers.

  2. Toxic Heavy Metals Contamination – A Faster, Simpler Way To Test 8/4/2020

    Finding out if the food and water we consume are safe from toxic heavy metals, can now be much faster and simpler.

  3. From Humble Hair To High-Tech Water Sensor 7/16/2020

    Griffith University researchers have used human hair waste to develop sustainable organic hi-tech devices for water quality testing of contaminants.

  4. New Method Estimates Risks Of Hormone-Disrupting Substances In Drinking Water 7/8/2020

    The method was used to evaluate the risk associated with exposure data from the population of Ronneby in Sweden where the drinking water had been contaminated with PFAS from fire-fighting foam.

  5. 'Pregnancy Test For Water' Delivers Fast, Easy Results On Water Quality 7/6/2020

    A new platform technology can assess water safety and quality with just a single drop and a few minutes.

  6. State Water Board Addresses Microplastics In Drinking Water To Encourage Public Water System Awareness 6/16/2020

    The State Water Board is leading an ambitious international effort to standardize methods for monitoring microplastics in drinking water, surface water, sediment and fish tissue. In a critical first step to further the understanding of microplastics in our drinking water and the environment, the Board today adopted an official definition of “microplastics” in drinking water.

  7. Aluminum May Affect Lead Levels In Drinking Water 5/18/2020

    It is not uncommon to find aluminum in municipal water systems. It’s part of a treatment chemical used in some water treatment processes. Recently, however, it has been discovered in lead scale, deposits that form on lead water pipes.

  8. Detecting Toxic PFAS With A Chip-Sized Sensor 4/24/2020

    PNNL has patented an accurate and portable way to detect miniscule amounts of an extremely persistent toxic chemical that accumulates in our bodies and our environment.

  9. Water Quality Could Be Altered In Buildings Closed During COVID-19 Pandemic 4/21/2020

    While restaurants, gyms, schools and other buildings are closed indefinitely to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the quality of water left sitting in pipes could change.

  10. New Instrument Fully Automates Sample Preparation For PFAS Analysis In Drinking Water 3/31/2020

    A new instrument that fully automates sample preparation for the analysis of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water by EPA method 537.1 is designed to help laboratories overcome the challenges associated with current labor-intensive manual methods.