What's New With Drinking Water
Matthew Von Hendy
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Welcome to the inaugural issue of What's New With Drinking Water
This weekly newsletter covers the latest happenings in drinking water including peer-reviewed research, regulatory activities, US state and local news, company reports and recently issued patents.
Peer Reviewed Research
In a typical week more than 200 peer reviewed articles on drinking water are published. The citations are a small sampling of some of the recent review articles.
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Ahmad, I., et al. (2025). "Catalytic insights into laccase for sustainable remediation of multifaceted pharmaceutically active micropollutants from water matrices: A state-of-art review." Journal of Water Process Engineering 70 C7 - 106901.
This review highlights the crucial function of laccase-based biocatalytic systems in the eco-friendly remediation of multiple PhAMPs, including but not limited to analgesics/NSAIDs, anticancer drugs, antiepileptic drugs, beta-blockers, and antibiotics, etc. Additionally, an atomic-level computational investigation of Enzymes-PhAMPs have been delineated to comprehend laccase activity to facilitate mechanisms aimed to clean water. ? 2024 Elsevier Ltd
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Asmally, R., et al. (2025). "Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in a Conflict Area: A Cross-Sectional Study in South Kordofan, Sudan." J Epidemiol Glob Health 15(1): 4.
The study aimed to evaluate the quality and availability of drinking water, as well as sanitation and hygiene practices in rural South Kordofan. It also sought to identify factors affecting community satisfaction with WASH services and to establish a data-driven basis for future interventions addressing these issues.
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Chaúque, B. J. M., et al. (2025). "Solar-based technologies for removing potentially toxic metals from water sources: a review." Environ Sci Pollut Res Int.
Among the available methods for mitigating the threat of these metals in water, solar radiation-based technologies stand out for their cleanliness, cost-effectiveness, and efficiency in removing or reducing the toxicity of heavy metals. The performance and productivity of these methods in removing heavy metals such as arsenic (As), chromium (Cr), mercury (Hg), and uranium (U) from water still need to be comprehensively synthesized. Thus, this work aims to address that gap.
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Chowdhury, S., et al. (2025). "Predicting few disinfection byproducts in the water distribution systems using machine learning models." Environ Sci Pollut Res Int.
This study developed multiple ML models to predict Trihalomethanes (THMs), Haloacetic Acids (HAAs), Dichloroacetonitrile (DCAN), and N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) in WDSs using data collected over 13?years (2008-2020) from 113 water supply systems (WSS) in Ontario.
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Duan, J., et al. (2025). "Involvement of inorganic nitrogen species (NO(X)(-) (x?=?2, 3)) in the degradation of organic contaminants in environmental waters via UV irradiation or chemical oxidation: A dual-edged approach." Sci Total Environ 963: 178500.
Herein, we systematically review the dual roles of inorganic nitrogen ions in contaminant degradation and nitrogenous by-product formation. First, the degradation kinetics of the UV/NO(x)(-) (x?=?2, 3) and oxidant/NO(2)(-) processes are summarized for various contaminants.
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Garfí, M., et al. (2025). "Social life cycle assessment of drinking water: Tap water, bottled mineral water and tap water treated with domestic filters." Environmental Impact Assessment Review 112 C7 - 107815.
The aim of this study was to develop a novel Social Life Cycle Assessment framework to assess the social impacts of different drinking water choices in the city of Barcelona (Spain): i) tap water; ii) bottled mineral water (PET bottle); iii) tap water treated with a domestic activated carbon filter (countertop pitchers with activated carbon); iv) tap water treated with domestic reverse osmosis. ? 2025 Elsevier Inc.
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Guo, H., et al. (2025). "Hydrogeochemical and health implications of rare earth elements in groundwater: A review." Journal of Hydrology 652 C7 - 132704.
?We have systematically reviewed the scientific literature over the last decades concerning sources, geochemical processes, potential tracer, and health impacts of REEs in groundwaters. ? 2025 Elsevier B.V.
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Huber, N., et al. (2024). "Biosecurity measures reducing Salmonella spp. and hepatitis E virus prevalence in pig farms—a systematic review and meta-analysis." Frontiers in Veterinary Science 11 C7 - 1494870.
This study aimed to identify biosecurity measures (BSMs) against these pathogens on swine farms in Europe, the United States, and Canada. Overall, 1,529 articles from three scientific databases were screened manually and with the artificial intelligence (AI) tool ASReview. Copyright ? 2024 Huber, Meester, Sassu, Waller, Krumova-Valcheva, Aprea, D’Angelantonio, Zoche-Golob, Scattolini, Marriott, Smith, Burow and Carreira.
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Jiang, F., et al. (2025). "Integrated Quantitative Tracing for Karst Groundwater Contamination: A Case Study of Landfill in Zunyi, Guizhou Province, China." Environ Pollut: 125731.
Traditional tracing methods often lack accuracy, so this study combined multiple techniques to trace and quantify pollution sources near the municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill in Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, China.
Federal Register/Federal Government
US EPA (1/21)
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US EPA (1/21)
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US EPA (1/15)
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US EPA (1/15)
US EPA (1/23)
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?US EPA (1/16)
USGS (1/16)
US State Drinking Water News
领英推荐
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2025/la-water-safe-no-boil-vocs/ (Subscription required)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/science/rattlesnakes-water-drinking.html (Subscription required)
Drinking Water Reports -- 3rd Parties and Other Sources
Drinking Water Patents From Around the World
PORTABLE GRAVITY-TYPE WATER PURIFYING APPARATUS Brief Summary: A portable gravity-type water purifying apparatus is provided. The portable gravity-type water purifying apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is to produce, when necessary,?drinking?water?from raw water by using gravity while being carried by a user and may comprise: a main body which includes a storage space having a predetermined volume
DEVICE FOR REMOVING WATER FROM A?DRINKING?WATER?LINE, SANITARY SYSTEM COMPRISING SUCH A DEVICE AND USE OF SUCH A DEVICE Brief Summary: ie Erfindung betrifft eine Vorrichtung zum Abführen von Wasser, insbesondere Stagnationswasser, aus einer Trinkwasserleitung, mit mindestens einer Trinkwasser-Zuleitung (2) zur Trinkwasserversorgung einer endst?ndigen Trinkwasser-Zapfstelle (4), insbesondere einer Kopf- oder Handbrause,
Company Self-Reports
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