The ideal condition for drinking water is no bacteria at all because the presence of bacteria of any type means there is a potential pathway(more…)
Blogs
Your gloves are telling you lies
The microplastics story is a particularly clean illustration of something I think about constantly: the act of measurement changes what you’re measuring. Every time a sample is collected, handled, transferred, stored, processed, and analyzed, there are opportunities to introduce error. Some of those errors elevate contaminant counts. Some suppress them. Protocol compliance reduces the risk, it does not eliminate it.
Are PFAS really “Forever” Chemicals?
The problem is that policy built on rhetorical shortcuts tends to produce blunt instruments. And when the instruments are blunt and the underlying science is nuanced, the compliance burden falls indiscriminately while actual risk reduction is uneven. That is where we are with PFAS regulation right now, and the water treatment industry, which sits at the intersection of PFAS as a contamination problem and PFAS as a chemistry used in treatment equipment, has more at stake in getting this right than almost any other sector.
EPA’s RealWaterTA Initiative
Technical assistance (TA) under RealWaterTA is a targeted, boots-on-the-ground effort to help water systems thrive. The EPA is refocusing on eight core priorities to ensure long-term reliability in providing safe drinking water and treating wastewater effectively.
Q1 2026 WQA Legislative update
In the latest episode of the Water Quality Association (WQA) Podcast, industry leaders and government affairs experts take a deep dive into the state-level legislative(more…)
Health on tap
The future of drinking water is not a conflict between centralized and decentralized; it never should have been. It’s really a hybrid model:
Utility infrastructure to supply water as cost-effectively as possible + Certified POU/POE technologies + Certified professionals who ensure consistent performance over time. Public health is not just delivered at the treatment plant. It’s delivered at the tap.
