Drinking Water Management

Why wait until tomorrow to know today’s water quality?

How clean is your water? Don’t take chances on microbiological contamination! Through fast and accurate testing, LuminUltra’s Quench-Gone Aqueous instantly measures total microbiological content of your water to detect emerging growth and locate the source of contamination. This takes the guess work out of managing water distribution systems and aids with chlorination and flush cycles.

A routine monitoring program using QGA provides the ability to:

• Monitor raw water quality to assess treatment in real-time.

• Measure true total microorganism, including heterotrophic bacteria, SRBs, nitrifiers, and higher life forms (algae, amoeba, yeast, mould) with a single measurement!

• Quickly audit an entire water distribution/treatment system to locate problem areas.

• Optimize any disinfection program (eg chlorine, chloramines) to find the optimum point between microbiological contamination and disinfection by-products (DBP’s).

• Monitor water quality in reservoirs and at booster stations to optimize system management.

• Control biocide usage to lower operating costs and minimize public health risk.

• Manage maintenance programs including line flushing, well flushing, cross-connections and line breaks!

• Assess / manage customer complaints

Chloramine & Nitrifiers

Our QGA test kits are essential for microbial monitoring in any water treatment process, especially those using chloramine-treated water. The ammonia in chloramine biocides can be a food source for a class of bacteria known as nitrifiers.

Nitrifiers consume the ammonia and multiply, thus negating the overall advantages of chloramine treatment. Whereas nitrifiers go undetected when using traditional culture tests, our test kits can reveal their presence.

The best prevention against nitrifiers is early detection!