Continuous monitoring at critical control points is expected to catch treatment failures before they reach the consumer, and to provide the evidence that it did. Two failure modes are quietly undermining that, one at each end of the Australian water sector.

No monitoring program can see everything, but it needs to see enough to manage the risks. Climate change keeps moving the goalposts.

Colour is an often misunderstood water quality parameter. Colour is present in most surface and ground water sources. While colour can be...

Setting the right critical limit is possibly the most important factor in managing water quality risk and ensuring the safe supply of...