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All Victorian water agencies were required to undertake drinking water quality audits between 1 Jan to 30 April 2023 - here's our take....

| Karen Pither I was in the Paroo Shire for a recent audit, driving between sites, we were discussing local indigenous heritage and the...

| Karen Pither As a drinking and recycled water auditor, I have been lucky enough to work with public and private water providers all along the eastern coast of the Australian mainland, from southern and western Victoria, metropolitan, coastal and western NSW and QLD, as far north as the Torres Strait and the Gulf of Carpentaria. Regardless of the utility size and resources, I have found that culture is the key factor when it comes to water quality risk management plan adequa

Water treatment operators are an engaged and passionate workforce, but are they being provided the necessary training that delivers the skills and competencies required to safety fulfil the role? The capability of water treatment operators to manage and maintain water infrastructure is essential to preventing water quality incidents. Hrudey and Hrudey (2014) reported that 78% of the errors that occurred were human related and a lack of training and competency provision reside

By Karen Pither, Senior consultant at Viridis Counsultants The ongoing threat of water scarcity in Australia is an issue that can no...

Critical Control Points (CCP) are an important component of Drinking Water Quality Management Plans (DWQMP) as well Recycled Water...

Turbidity Measurement Turbidity is used a lot when talking about water quality and the performance of water treatment plants (WTP). But what is turbidity and what do the results mean? Simply put turbidity is the amount of light scattered by water. Light passing through water is scattered by suspended and colloidal matter. Turbidity measurements are made using electronic nephelometers, which report results as nephelometric turbidity units (NTU). These instruments use light d