Innovative water treatment technologies

An absolute barrier to PFAS in RO concentrate – no PFAS discharge to the environment in the drinking water sector (PAH PFAS)

An inventory study (KWR 2021.040) has shown that drinking water utilities find PFAS in their sources. PFAS are removed effectively during treatment with reverse osmosis (RO) but this…

Biological activity

PFAS: A Threat for the Dutch Drinking Water Cycle?

...increasing, and to-date more than 4000 chemicals have been classified as PFAS. Water contamination and resulting human exposures from legacy PFAS, such as perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), and emerging PFAS, such...

Innovative water treatment technologies

An integrated approach for the detection of undesirable perfluorinated substances in the water cycle

...complex mixes of PFAS in groundwater, surface water and drinking water is not known, particularly since industry is introducing more and more alternative PFAS to replace regulated substances.…

Emerging contaminants

Risks of industrial emissions to air for drinking water production

...the air filters of the drinking water treatment plant were filled with soot. At present, the threat comes from the emission of PFAS from industrial activities. It has…

Emerging contaminants

Non-target screening

...are compared with a ‘suspect’ list of substances that are thought to be present in the sample, such as substances of very high concern and their metabolites, PFAS or substances...

Hydroinformatics

Impact of substances of very high concern in the environment

...persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic). They therefore fulfil the criteria stated in Article 57 of REACH. Substances that the water sector has to deal with include PFAS, drugs waste…