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A Framework for Safe Drinking Water: Using science over politics in the search for safe water solutions.
The question of what needs to be done to move toward safe drinking water is not as simple as most people assume. It is a question that can have both a political and a technical answer.
Chemical Limitations of Groundwater Treatment: Effective ways of analyzing groundwater, and how to determine if chemistry can be used to purify it.
Often groundwater sources are analyzed with the main objective of compliance to guidelines. This is great if you want to comply with guidelines, but if you want to produce safe drinking water a different approach is required.
The Power of Biology in Drinking Water Treatment
The first filters for municipal drinking water treatment were slow sand filters –where water is passed through a bed of fine sand at slow speeds – developed almost 200 years ago in England.
Groundwater's Many Treatment Challenges: Knowing the qualities of your groundwater source, from surface water to deeper aquifers
In Canada and around the world communities and individuals are drilling into underground water sources that are similar to above ground lakes. Aquifers can be found a few meters to hundreds of meters below the earth’s surface.
Walkerton - Five Years Later
Days before the Walkerton outbreak in May 2000, Municipal World magazine published one of my articles warning Canadians about rampant water quality problems in rural Canada.
Biological Water Treatment Discussed at UN
On May 10, 2005, an internal briefing note to Environment Minister Stephane Dion was published from an Access to Information request. The document states “Our failure to protect water has caught up with us”.
Drinking Water: Protecting Human Health
Since the formation of the Safe Drinking Water Foundation (SDWF) in 1997, we have argued that there should be greater accountability and more applied science to ensure that drinking water is not only perceived to be safe but actually is safe.
Clean Drinking Water: British Columbia and the Tsunami
In February the B.C. government launched a new $80 million safe drinking water program.
Report from the Safe Drinking Water Foundation’s 1st International Conference
I have attended many water conferences in Canada, the U.S. and around the world and have found that when it comes to dealing with water issues in most countries, politics frequently comes into the scientific mix.
In the Absence of Regulations
When we turn on the tap, we assume the water has been treated properly and is safe to drink. We know someone is responsible for ensuring this is safe and if it causes illness, that they will be held accountable.