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Understanding Waste Water Testing and Its Importance to Ensure Environmental Protection

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The increased urbanization, growing population and more production have resulted in a rising consumption of water and a consequent increment in the waste water quantities as well. The growth of commercial, industrial and institutional entities has been a swift process during the past few decades and each one has resulted in enhanced demands of water and generation of enormous wastewater quantities as a result.   

The ever-increasing quantities of water utilized and generation of wastewater have resulted in an imperative need to treat the same so as to ensure best environmental protection. In order to allow for a safe discharge of wastewater, it becomes essential to test the samples for knowing the types and levels of by-products and to ensure they conform to the regulatory limits.    

Ensuring safety of wastewater discharge with water laboratory testing 

The tests for waste water conducted at dedicated laboratories have a prime aim to determine the various contaminants, by-products and pollutants that are present in the samples and to ensure their quantity and type follow the regulatory standards for allowing a safe discharge and minimum environment impact.  

The following four quality analysis testing categories comprise wastewater testing -  

Organic testing    

Wastewater is comprised of a vast number of by-products and they have diverse characteristics. Organic matter constitutes to be the highest quantity concentration in wastewater. The concentration of organic or carbon-based compounds in waste water determines its strength.

Solid content testing 

The particulate solids that are dissolved in water or just remain suspended can effectively be analyzed by laboratory testing. These include the total solids, suspended solids, dissolved solids as well as the volatile and fixed solids. Only after the wastewater samples conform to comprise of permissible quantities and types of solids, then only it is deemed safe for discharge.    

Nutrient content testing 

The concentration of major nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorous that can result in aging of water bodies needs to be calculated. These nutrient constituents determine the eutrophication acceleration of waste water. 

Physical properties testing 

The various analytical tests conducted on waste water samples are developed so as to determine the levels and parameters of various physical properties such as Ph, temperature, odor, color as well as turbidity.

These analytical tests even though are categorized separately, they remain interdependent. If one of the testing parameters identifies the presence of a particular contaminant, the same can be identified by other parameters of testing categories as well.

Wastewater when discharged without proper treatment into water bodies can pollute and contaminate the environment. In order to protect such pollution and contamination, analytical testing of wastewater before discharge is imperative. Only after conducting these tests, the necessary treatment measures can be processed so as to ensure complete safety of the environment.    

QA Testing Laboratories has an advanced infrastructure of water quality testing laboratory where it conducts various tests so as to determine complete safety, regulatory compliance and ultimate precision of analytical procedures on wastewater.        


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