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Drinking Water Monitoring

Characterizing the quality of surface and groundwater for human consumption is a key component of risk assessment for agrochemicals throughout the world. Waterborne scientists have successfully completed numerous regional and national drinking water monitoring studies.

These monitoring programs involved sampling community water supplies (CWS) and rural drinking water wells in target product usage areas to evaluate the presence of parent compounds and their metabolites in drinking water. Depending on the study objective, studies can be statistically designed to evaluate trends with sampling at specific intervals or to provide a single "snapshot" in time with resampling if detections are reported.

We use a combination of GIS, modeling, and field studies to select, characterize, and evaluate suitable water supplies to meet a monitoring program’s objective. Monitoring programs have been conducted by Waterborne staff (or in some cases by qualified partners) from the small scale (sampling individual drinking water wells) to large-scale sampling of municipal CWS. Our breadth of experience enables us to assemble highly qualified sampling teams wherever the monitoring program may be required.