A study looking at the extent of cyanobacterial cell accumulation and presence of five cyanotoxins across the treatment trains of four drinking water treatment plants in the Great Lakes region...
When discussing proposed lead in drinking water guidelines recently, the topic of lead in point-of use devices/plumbing materials and NSF 372 came up.
The deadlines for providing comments to Health Canada on their ‘Guidance document on the use of quantitative microbial risk assessment in drinking water’ and ‘Proposed guideline technical document on copper in drinking water’ documents have expired but a ‘Proposed guideline technical document on strontium in drinking water’ is now available for public comment ...
The ‘Guideline Technical Document: Cyanobacterial Toxins’ is now available on Health Canada's web site.
A just published review article on the risk of engineered and incidental nanoparticles in drinking water concludes risks to human health are low.
I learned today what ‘poikilothermic animals’ are (those with body temperatures that vary with the ambient environmental temperature, such as fish, frogs, and snails) and why, as drinking water professionals, we should care.
Not too long ago the Flint water crisis drew our attention to the observation that changing the raw water source to a drinking water treatment plant needs to be done with due care and diligence.
If you are like me you probably wonder why pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV) is being suggested by authors of this just published paper as a viral indicator (surrogate) for fecal contamination in water (instead of enteric viruses, adenoviruses or noroviruses).
The deadlines for providing comments to Health Canada on their ‘Guidance document on the use of quantitative microbial risk assessment in drinking water’ and ‘Proposed guideline technical document on copper in drinking water’ documents have expired but a ‘Proposed guideline technical document on strontium in drinking water’ is now available for public comment at...
In an effort to avoid chlorinated disinfection byproduct (DBP) formation in distribution systems many drinking water utilities switched from free chlorine to chloramination.