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Advanced pressure measurement enhances wastewater network reliability
8+ hour, 43+ min ago (590+ words) Portable & field testing When Wessex Water reviewed its requirements for a pressure monitoring solution, the goal was clear: find an instrument that was advanced, resilient, and easy to use, without compromising on accuracy or reliability. After evaluating their options, they…...
Could optical spectroscopy make chiral analysis faster and less sample-intensive?
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (817+ words) Portable & field testing Two enantiomers can share the same chemical composition but behave differently because of their three-dimensional structure. For environmental and analytical monitoring professionals, chirality is not yet a routine front-line issue in the same way as PFAS, nutrients,…...
Powering reliability in rail performance
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (352+ words) Portable & field testing Grinsty Rail turned to Titan Enterprises and its FT2 turbine flowmeter technology to deliver precise, dependable flow measurement within its de-icing systems. Colin Wood, Grinsty Rail's Operations Manager, suggested: "The challenge was Grinsty needed a liquid flowmeter that…...
Another advance in river-based pathogen monitoring
1+ week, 6+ day ago (994+ words) Portable & field testing For decades, water quality programmes have focused heavily on nutrients, metals, organic contaminants, turbidity, dissolved oxygen and standard microbial indicators such as E. coli. Those measurements remain essential but a new study from Japan highlights why future monitoring…...
Plants can detect hidden pfas pollution that soil tests may miss, new study finds
2+ week, 3+ day ago (475+ words) Portable & field testing The findings, published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, indicate that vegetation could provide an early warning system for emerging PFAS pollution and complement traditional environmental monitoring methods. The study was led by researchers from the Hebrew…...
What Vietnam's new industrial wastewater standard QCVN 40: 2025 means for monitoring professionals
3+ week, 1+ day ago (321+ words) Portable & field testing Vietnam's new industrial wastewater standard did not arrive with the international attention often given to European or Chinese regulation. Yet for anyone involved in industrial water monitoring in Southeast Asia, QCVN 40: 2025/BTNMT is a major development. For…...
EU data centre rating scheme puts energy and water performance under scrutiny
1+ mon, 5+ hour ago (845+ words) The European Commission's draft regulation published in March 2026, proposing an EU-wide rating scheme for data centres, signals a shift from internal engineering metrics to public comparative assessment. For environmental monitoring professionals, the important question is not primarily about electricity bills…...
Exceptional air quality and emissions monitoring scientific committee for CEM Asia
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (415+ words) Portable & field testing Leading the conference as Chair is Dr. Noor Zaitun Yahaya, Chief Executive Director of Global Enviro Enterprise in the United Kingdom. Dr. Noor Zaitun brings a rare combination of academic excellence, technical expertise and international leadership experience....
Re-engineered snow depth sensor delivers accurate real-time measurements during active snowfall
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (209+ words) Portable & field testing R. M. Young Company has launched a re-engineered version of its SNOdar (Model 54000), a compact LIDAR-based snow depth sensor that delivers accurate, real-time measurements, even in the middle of a snowstorm. The sensor includes an internal non-volatile data logger…...
Making nutrient analysis more reliable, efficient and hands-off
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (244+ words) Portable & field testing Environmental labs are being asked to do more with less - faster turnaround times, tighter budgets, and ever-increasing pressure to deliver reliable, defensible data. For many, the answer is not necessarily more staffing or throughput, but smarter automation....