WATER INDUSTRY FEATURES, INSIGHTS, AND ANALYSIS
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Parasitic Infections Hit The Health Of Low-Income Black Communities Where States Have Neglected Sewage Systems
Intestinal infections take a heavy toll on impoverished Black communities that have out-of-date sewage systems. These infections often spread through contaminated soil and water and are among the most common diseases worldwide. Although many Americans believe these diseases now exist only in lower-income countries, research that my colleague and I have conducted challenges this assumption.
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The Dangers Of Lead Poisoning In Schools — And How We Can Fix The Nationwide Problem Known as a highly toxic chemical that is damaging to growth and learning development, lead in tap water is a matter raising nationwide concern. While some states have acted to improve this issue, the health threat of lead in school drinking fountains is now leading citizens to worry about the dangers of child consumption, the country's aging water systems, and the protection of our future generation.
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How To Prevent UK Sewage Pollution From Getting Worse
In sewers, human waste mingles with personal hygiene products, household chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and other contaminants, creating highly toxic wastewater that pours pollutants and 6.2 million tons of nitrogen into coastal water every year. How can we prevent sewage pollution? The answer starts with tackling the problem in the UK.
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When Almost Perfect Isn’t Good Enough
Despite statistically astounding performance, water and wastewater utilities have almost no room for error due to the nature of public perception and the importance of their work.
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PFAS Payback: How Utilities Can Hold Polluters Accountable As the federal government ramps up the regulatory process for enforceable limits on PFAS in drinking water, estimated to cost billions annually, an environmental attorney details how utilities can hold polluters — instead of ratepayers — financially responsible.
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Fracking Disclosures Show Widespread Use Of Hazardous Chemicals
Fracking, short for hydraulic fracturing, is a process in which workers inject fluids underground under high pressure. The fluids fracture coal beds and shale rock, allowing the gas and oil trapped within the rock to rise to the surface. Advances in fracking launched a huge expansion of U.S. oil and gas production starting in the early 2000s but also triggered intense debate over its health and environmental impacts.
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New PFAS Guidelines — A Water Quality Scientist Explains Technology And Investment Needed To Get Forever Chemicals Out Of U.S. Drinking Water An environmental engineer who develops techniques to remove PFAS explains what the proposed guidelines would require, how water utilities could meet these requirements, and how much it might cost to get these so-called forever chemicals out of U.S. drinking water.
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The Water Industry Reacts To Proposed PFAS Regulations For Drinking Water
With the U.S. EPA’s recent announcement proposing maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) for certain PFAS, stakeholders throughout the water industry — representing utilities, industry, the environment, legal interests, and public health — were quick to offer their opinions.
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How An Algal Metabolic Hack Threatens Our Waters Algae's ability to adapt and thrive is bad news for U.S. waterways, highlighting the importance of preventative measures to stave off harmful algal blooms.
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Two Water Movies: The Harmful And The Hopeful
Adam Tank and I just had Travis Loop as a guest on our podcast Water We Talking About, and he gave us an update on his initiative to do in-depth reporting on the PFAS issue. And our next guest is Aoife Kelleher, associate producer and lead researcher for the water documentary Brave Blue World. So I thought it would be a good time to repost my review on two very different water movies, Dark Waters and Brave Blue World.
VIEWS ON THE LATEST REGS
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A Q&A with human health toxicologist and environmental risk assessor Janet Anderson, Ph.D., DABT
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The risk level linked to delivered drinking water from municipal utilities is very small, even if some high-profile examples of failure (see Flint, MI) have degraded public confidence to a degree. Our treatment professionals usually hit their targets, so the onus then shifts to the research and guidance that determines the safe level of various constituents through U.S. EPA protocols. But there is one contaminant that rulemaking hasn’t quite caught up to and which is downright deadly — Legionella pneumophila.
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The Federal government plays a significant role in water project development, through both funding and regulating the industry. Water sector champion Mae Stevens shares how we as water professionals need to play an important role in influencing our congressional representatives and senators to win support of what we need to advance business opportunities.
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With more than 50,000 community water systems (CWS) in the U.S., it is amazing that only 285 individuals had logged public comments on the U.S. EPA’s proposed Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) Revisions by the February 12, 2020 deadline. Yet, what those respondents had to say could have a big impact on how we deal with lead in drinking water moving forward. Here is a cross-section of the industry’s response.
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Are you completely ready to implement the scores of changes in the U.S. EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR), exactly as proposed? If not, act quickly, because time to register constructive feedback before the February 12th deadline is running out. Less than three weeks before the end of the comment period, the EPA’s webpage for feedback displayed only 131 public submissions regarding the proposed regulations.
MORE WATER INDUSTRY FEATURES
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Understand how to manage impurities in drug development with swift isolation, synthesis, and analysis. A client discovered an impurity during ongoing stability studies that exceeded ICH guidelines.
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In this article, explore the states that have laws or guidance documents available regarding sewage pollution notification requirements.
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Industrial metal detectors are widely used to identify unwanted contaminants. Discover an innovative signal processing software designed to enhance metal detector performance for challenging applications with high product effect.
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There are a few things that smaller water treatment plants should keep in mind when homing in on the most viable technologies for PFAS.
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Adam Tank and I just had Travis Loop as a guest on our podcast Water We Talking About, and he gave us an update on his initiative to do in-depth reporting on the PFAS issue. And our next guest is Aoife Kelleher, associate producer and lead researcher for the water documentary Brave Blue World. So I thought it would be a good time to repost my review on two very different water movies, Dark Waters and Brave Blue World.
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Read about perfusion imaging techniques and their use for clinical trials, with a particular focus on perfusion imaging using DCE-MRI.
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Explore solutions to help labs with quantification and biotherapeutic contaminant detection. These tools include including software that supports regulatory compliance with U.S. FDA 21 CFR Part 11 regulations.
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Ari Goldfarb, CEO, Kando, discusses how innovative technologies and artificial intelligence tools are advancing wastewater analysis and could potentially mitigate the effects, or even prevent, future pandemics.
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Discover how digital solutions are helping manage extremes in water availability for the city of Joinville, Brazil.
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In the Beginning, there was water. The first couple of lines of the Bible describe a newly formed earth covered in water, a swirling deep. From there, the rest of creation emerged.
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Properly deployed, predictive machine learning can bridge gaps, accelerating the work of modernizing our water systems in an explainable manner that makes the best use of our scarce resources.
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Read about the Uttar Pradesh State Water and Sanitation's mission to bring drinking water to every household in their area by improving water infrastructure.
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Learn about the father-son owned firm, TSA, that designed a modern sewage network to help address water quality issues.
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Learn how dams play a vital role in supporting the increasing demand for all uses of water.
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Discover how to track water loss, analyze results, and standardize operating practices for your team with more efficiency.
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Here are some considerations that can help water treatment plant (WTP) supervisors, operators, and their consulting engineers achieve their PFAS removal goals more efficiently and cost effectively despite the added challenges.
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Read how Park City, UT was able to find an affordable solution to Giardia and Cryptosporidium that is also easy for operators of any certification level to use.
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Having reproducible columns is critical for the success of batch to batch testing of stationary phases, as well as ensuring lifelong performance for the assay.