Q1 2019 WQA Legislative Report

This WQA News Report covers stories in California, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Washington DC, and Federal (US) water quality news. Feel free to contact Kathleen Fulz or David Loveday if you have any questions.

Global Water Complications

Globally, we haven’t done the best job in protecting of resources. Humanity has an almost limitless potential to innovate and we need to spend our energy and efforts in responsibly harmonizing with our natural world while cleaning the mess we’ve already made.  Until we figure out how to progress without negative consequences, we must assume that all waters will be contaminated to some extent with numerous contaminants. It just makes sense to filter and purify all waters that we drink, work with, and play with.

Inspecting Water for Pharmaceutical use

The USP designation means that the water is the subject of an official monograph in the current US PHARMACOPEIA with various specifications for each type. The latter 4 waters are “finished” products that are packaged and labeled as such and need not be of concern during an inspection outside of plants which actually produce these products. The USP purified water and the USP WFI on the other hand are components or “ingredient materials” as they are termed by the USP, intended to be used in the production of drug products.

SB 981 – Bill signed on September 29 by Governor Brown

PWQA was able to help facilitate this due to the hard work of Josiah Young from Churchwell White and Marisol in Senator Dodd’s office who worked diligently with Senate and  Assembly offices, committee staff and the Governor’s Office to overcome this opposition.  Thank you to all the members who submitted letters to the Governor’s Office and attended the Legislative Days as these contributions were also very important.  Also, thanks to Mike Mecca and Chris Layton who attended the CSLB meeting in San Diego, Melodie Bullock for testifying in committee.  All this was accomplished by a great team effort!