Water utilities have a Goldilocks problem: If they don’t add enough chlorine, nasty bacteria that cause typhoid and cholera survive the purification process. Too much chlorine produces disinfection byproducts such as chloroform, which increase cancer risks. The amount of chlorine needs to be “just right” for safe drinking water.
The 2nd biennial North American Water Loss Conference (NAWL 2017) will be held December 3-5 in San Diego this year, marking another significant step forward in the water loss industry in North America. NAWL 2017 will be hosted by the California-Nevada Section AWWA, in partnership with the Alliance for Water Efficiency, AWWA, and the U.S. EPA.
Elevated levels of uranium in water supplies are an environmental safety and health concern, but current methods of detecting it are cumbersome, costly and time consuming.
As the leader in real-time water quality analysis, Aqua Metrology Systems (AMS) is now offering a portable arsenic analyzer providing accurate, economical and reliable detection of arsenic anywhere and anytime.
Concerns about water quality among Americans has increased over the past two years, according to a new national public opinion study, with a significant jump in the number of homeowners who expressed concern about possible health risks associated with tap water (29%) compared with just two years ago (12%). Thirty-six percent of those surveyed said they are concerned about contaminants in their water, up from 25% in 2015.
Endress+Hauser introduces amperometric Free Chlorine Analysis Systems, compliant to EPA Method 334.0. The systems eliminate the need for costly reagents and accompanying required maintenance, making the system ideally suited for applications in drinking water, industrial water, power and other industries where water is disinfected using chlorine.
The Water Environment & Reuse Foundation (WE&RF) recently awarded a contract to the Orange County Water District in California for research that will assist with analysis of nitrosamines in water.
Customer education, infrastructure modernization and the use of data analytics will be key tools to overcoming the water industry’s perennial challenges posed by aging infrastructure.
De Nora, a leading supplier of electrodes and water treatment technologies, announces the launch of Capital Controls® MicroChem®3, a multi-parameter water analysis system offering both measurement and control of chlorine-based compounds and other critical elements in one versatile instrument that can be specifically tailored to individual applications.
McCrometer, a flow meter manufacturer based out of Hemet, CA, USA is featuring Smart Output for use with their line of electromagnetic insertion and full bore flow meters. Smart Output is compatible with Sensus and Itron systems, which makes these mag meters plug and play into larger AMI and AMR systems.
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