Drinking Water News and Headlines
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120Water Partners With Hach To Ensure Drinking Water Quality And To Protect Public Health Around The Globe
9/30/2020
120Water, a digital water platform in use at more than 180,000 sample sites across the nation, announced it has partnered with Hach, a water quality testing and instrumentation company, to make water quality and compliance programs faster, simpler, and more informative for people around the world.
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Data-Driven Innovation Boosts Reliability Of Drinking Water Treatment Installations In California
9/29/2020
Five years ago, the town of Dixon in California celebrated the installation of three novel treatment plants removing contaminants like chromium-6 (Cr-6) from the local water supply.
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Michigan Nets $1.9M EPA Grant For Lead Testing Of School Drinking Water
9/8/2020
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) announced today that it has been awarded a $1.9M grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for lead testing of drinking water at schools and child care facilities across the state.
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New, Easy-To-Use, Compact, Ion Chromatography System Simplifies Water Analysis
8/18/2020
Small environmental and academic teaching laboratories specializing in water analysis can benefit from simpler setup and operation and improved quality with a new, compact ion chromatography (IC) system that can bring an advanced level of simplicity to anion and cation analyses of drinking water.
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Predicting A Crisis Before It Happens: Sensors In The Water Network
8/13/2020
The UK is currently experiencing a heatwave – London, for example, has had the longest stretch of hot weather in almost 60 years.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'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.