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Water Technology TKI: a step-by-step approach to PFAS monitoring techniques provides a clearer view of blind spots

PFAS: the water sector is faced with numerous challenges relating to this large – and often harmful – group of substances. Being able to detect them is one such challenge. In a recently completed TKI project, a step-by-step method was developed to help drinking water utilities and water authorities to establish a clearer picture of PFAS. “This is a tool that can be applied in practice to identify our blind spot and colour it in further if necessary,” says Hugo Lapre of Brabant Water.

PFAS, which are also known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a source of increasing concern for the water sector because they are appearing throughout the water chain. Although water laboratories can conduct twenty to thirty target substance analyses, as required by law, the thousands of other PFAS remain under the radar. As a result, precise information about the presence and distribution of these complex mixtures in groundwater, surface water and wastewater is largely lacking. In addition, industry is constantly coming up with new alternative PFAS to replace regulated variants, which only makes the challenges relating to them more difficult.

For more information: Read the complete article (in Dutch) on the Water Technology TKI website.

 

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