Water Quality Testing Blog

The water supply of over 2 million Californians has been exposed to harmful levels of nitrates over the past 15 years, a period marked by lax regulatory efforts to contain the colorless and odorless contaminant, a California Watch investigation has found. Read the shocking story in today’s San Francisco Chronicle. … READ MORE

May’s Water Technology Magazine features an interview with our president Ivars on lead and how to educate customers.

Peracetic acid is a disinfectant and powerful oxidizer, used in a wide range of applications primarily in the food industry. We are proud to announce our newest visual test strip method – WaterWorks™ Peracetic Acid (#480065) test strips. WaterWorks™ Peracetic Acid test strips are a quick and reliable way to check water quality without the hassle of reagent drops or bulky test kits … READ MORE

For more than two decades, the Design News Awards Program has recognized engineering innovation and creativity in product design. This year, Golden Mousetrap awards were given in four major categories: Electronics, Motion Control/Automation, Hardware/Software, Materials/Fastening/Joining/Assembly, and 20 subcategories. Their editors gathered a record number of entries and, based on their expertise … READ MORE

Yesterday while relaxing at home the movie “Erin Brockovich” was playing. Many know of her incredible story taking on California’s Pacific Gas and Electric for water contamination. Between 1952 and 1966, Pacific Gas and Electric used hexavalent chromium, a known human carcinogen to fight corrosion in the plant cooling tower. If hexavalent chromium doesn’t ring a bell, think chrome, the stuff that … READ MORE

ITS president Ivars Jaunakais is quoted in the March edition of Water Technology Magazine. Please click here to read the entire story.

We recently learned one of our friends in the Water Quality market had passed. Tom Seechuk worked for LaMotte Company and a regular at their trade show booth. Although he was a competitor, we enjoyed chatting with him about water issues and chemistry with a mixture of humor sprinkled in. ITS wishes to express our deepest sympathies to the Seechuk family and everyone at LaMotte Company. His wit and … READ MORE

ITS president Ivars Jaunakais was on CN2 news discussing our products and how they are used in Haiti for field testing clean drinking water.