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.