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• Indiana Wastewater Monitoring Program: Sampling Community Sewersheds For SARS-CoV-2

  A community wastewater system can provide valuable information about public health conditions in an anonymous and rapidly accessible manner. One area where this is especially powerful is infectious diseases, which are shed into wastewater systems. In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the scientific community has rapidly mobilized to determine if wastewater monitoring for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, could be detected and quantified in wastewater streams and sludge.

• Water Quotes From U.S. Presidents

  I recently wrote an open letter to President Joe Biden requesting a commitment to make the funding of U.S. water infrastructure a priority in his Build Back Better program. I sent a similar open letter to president-elect Donald Trump back in 2016.

• City Of Fayetteville Replaces UV Treatment System With BlueInGreen's HyDOZ® Solution

  Plant officials at a 12 MGD wastewater plant in Arkansas began evaluating disinfection alternatives to upgrade their current system as well as address the removal of contaminants of emerging concern (CEC). The facility, which included primary clarification, activated sludge, secondary clarification and sand filtration, elected to use dissolved ozone to replace its current ultraviolet (UV) system. After researching different ozone systems, plant officials chose to install BlueInGreen’s HyDOZ® technology in order to more efficiently meet current permit requirements, as well as prepare for future legislation.

• U.S. Infrastructure Investment And Jobs Act: Prioritizing Capital Water Improvement Projects

  According to the 2021 Infrastructure Report Card, only 21% of all U.S. utilities report being able to fully cover the cost of providing drinking water services.

• 5 Novel Techniques For Solubility Enhancement

  Thanks to insoluble drug delivery technologies, the practice of reformulating poorly soluble drug products to improve efficacy, patient compliance and safety has now been widely adopted.

• Protecting Aquatic Ecosystems

  While ships are a highly effective way of carrying cargoes around the world, they can also provide a way of transporting pollutants – both man-made and biological – that can be damaging to the environment if left unmanaged. We look at how ABB’s instruments and analyzers can be used to help protect the world’s ocean and coastal environments by tackling the problems of bilge and ballast water.

• Creating More Resilient Communities Through Optimized Drainage Design

  Water is our most valuable resource. Thus, for decades, our government has been concerned with our water systems, particularly with the public safety of clean drinking water and healthy wastewater systems. The latest development in this pursuit is the Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021, section 214 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which pertains to improving environmental and public health.
• Influence Of Humidity On Powder Characteristics Of Pharma Powders

   In this article the Anton Paar powder shear cell was used to determine different powder properties and processes such as flow behavior and caking at a wide range of relative humidity (7% to 95%).

• Measuring Cell Density In S.U.B.s With Aber Futura Neo Single-Use Sensors

  This application note summarizes the sensor’s function, integration into the S.U.B. BPC, and showcases functional cell culture data obtained both internally and with a primary customer.

• Durham, NC Improves Water Quality With Remote Pressure Monitoring, Sampling, And Flushing Stations

  The City of Durham is committed to providing safe drinking water to a service population of more than 289,000.  The City’s Department of Water Management (DWM) ensures the delivery of water to approximately 99,000 service connections through 1,400 miles of watermains. Lake Michie and Little River Reservoir are the two sources that deliver raw water to the City’s two treatment plants, using a combination of gravity flow and electric and hydro-powered pumping systems. Together, these plants have the combined treatment capacity of 64 million gallons per day (MGD) with an average demand is 28 MGD.

• My Top Three Takeaways From IFAT 2022

  Seeing 100,000 of my closest water friends buzz around buildings upon buildings of water & wastewater treatment was eye-opening and I can’t wait for the next IFAT.

• Cannabis: A Unique Perspective

  The cannabis industry is riding sky-high and heading for the clouds as legalization expands and markets grow. Cannabis growers are also poised to lead agriculture in water use efficiency and gain an upper hand in long-term contests over access to precious water.

• Fundamentals Of Size Exclusion Chromatography

  SEC, also known as gel filtration, can be used for preparative and analytical studies of your protein. But how do you know which parameters give you the best resolution of your protein mixture?

• Defining Decentralized Clinical Trials And Understanding Their Nuances

  Decentralization is one arrow in the quiver to modernize clinical trials. Yet, owing to the varied approaches and possible components that can be brought to bear under the rubric of decentralization, a singular and unifying definition is elusive.

• Water Is Food

  Celebrating Earth Day always reminds me of the great Arthur C. Clarke's observation that we shouldn't have called our planet "earth," but "ocean" instead — after all, it's mostly water. The same is true of food: most food is literally largely water, and every morsel of our food figuratively floats on a sea of water that was necessary to produce it.

• Parameters Effecting Vapor Hydrogen Peroxide Biological Indicator Performance

  We review the potential benefits and difficulties of using Vapor Hydrogen Peroxide (VHP) in decontamination and sterilization.

• How Comparable Are Different Vendors’ LB Media?

  Using an at-line analyzer to quickly screen different vendor’s LB media may support reproducible cultures and media preparations for bacterial cultures.

• Bacto CD Supreme FPM Consistently Supports Higher Growth And Plasmid Production In E. coli

  Traditional microbial media for E. coli often contain animal-origin components and are complex. Stemmed from an overall industry drive to develop animal origin–free (AOF) and chemically defined (CD) media, Gibco™ Bacto™ CD Supreme Fermentation Production Medium (FPM) supports process flexibility and consistency in production. Read the results of a head-to-head comparison between Bacto CD Supreme FPM and Terrific Broth (TB), a traditional microbial medium.