Water quality for life
Tools to support the protection of our water sources
Maintaining quality water sources and protecting our environmental water resources is fundamental in maintaining life.
As the primary water sources for human use and consumption, surface and ground water quality is essential and testing is critical for human safety. The wastewater from these sources is treated and sometimes resourced for reuse, making wastewater testing another essential part of water quality testing.
The mass spectrometer is the preferred technology for water quality testing, from surface and environmental water, to drinking water and wastewater. The ability to detect very low levels of a variety of chemical compounds, ranging from pesticides and pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCP), to residual explosives and disinfection by-products, make it ideal for water quality testing applications.
Benzoylecgonine detected during water quality monitoring
Additional resources:
- Two nontargeted screening approaches for examination of drinking water before and after treatment
- Quantitative polarity switching LC-MS/MS method for pesticides and PPCPs in environmental water samples
- Screening and identification of unknown contaminants in untreated tap water using a hybrid triple quadrupole linear ion trap LC-MS/MS System
- EPA Method 535: Detection of degradates of chloroacetanilides and other acetamide herbicides in water by LC/MS/MS
- Advantages of using triple quadrupole over single quadrupole mass spectrometry to quantify and identify the presence of pesticides in water and soil samples
- Screening and identification of unknown contaminants in untreated tap water using a hybrid triple quadrupole linear ion trap LC-MS/MS system
- Accurate mass LC-MS/MS based workflows for water contaminants screening
- The secrets to quickly getting answers from complex MS data – new data processing tools and tricks for high-throughput, routine testing labs
- The use of large volume injection and online-SPE and LC-MS/MS in water testing