Water Analysis – News and Features

Researchers from the University of Bristol present the first comprehensive catalogue of the characteristics of available and emerging low-cost tests for faecal indicator bacteria.

This study highlights the substantive differences between population estimates using water from an improved source and estimates of populations using water free of faecal contamination and water with low risk of faecal contamination.

The study conducts statistical and spatial analyses to investigate amounts and types of permitted surface water pollution discharges in relation to population mortality rates for cancer and non-cancer causes in US rural-urban areas.

Seminars will feature new Thermo Scientific water analysis products and solutions.

The study illustrates the promising potential of a cell phone–enabled, field-portable and cost-effective E. coli detection platform for the screening of both water and food samples.

A new report published in the journal PLoS ONE, analyzing water consumption in 405 river basins around the world, found that water scarcity impacts at least 2.7 billion people for at least one month each year.

Svenja Kristina Holle from UHM has won 2011 award.

This year’s conference and technical sessions will mark a new level of content, including new session criteria and formats, growth in the number of senior-level speakers, and a third day of programming.

High school students invited to submit papers to the Junior Science, Engineering and Humanities Symposium at the University of Missouri, St. Louis by February 10, 2012.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is awarding 26 grants for research, education and extension efforts that will help to inform science-based decision-making on water-related issues in communities across the United States.