Agriculture

Nitrate

The use of fertilizers has been responsible for dramatic increases in food production over the last 50 years. There has been more pressure to increase usage recently with a greater emphasis on biofuel as an energy resource. This pressure comes at a time when vast areas of our rivers and ground waters already contain nitrate at high levels. This means that we have applied more fertilizer than required to get the job done. The ultimate implication of this situation is unnecessary expense and a less sustainable environment. The LiquID is a verified technology for monitoring nitrate in water that provides us with a tool that we can use to gather the information necessary to reduce this waste, safeguard our water supply, and improve our treatment infrastructure. Contact us

Pesticides

Water-borne pesticides are complicit in adverse health conditions ranging from autism to breast cancer. Meanwhile the need for food and energy is ever increasing. This confrontational situation requires a merging of our environmental and economical agendas. Common ground lies in improving the efficiencies of our usage and water treatment systems. Monitoring individual compounds is ineffective because there are thousands of herbicides, insecticides and fungicides in use. What we need is a holistic view of the movement of such substances through our drinking water systems. The LiquID provides this information continuously in real time with UV254 absorption and other parameters. Contact us

Bacteria

Our food supply, recreational facilities, and potable water supply are under continuous threat from fecal matter contamination. The consequences can be fatal for the public and the economic consequences devastating to suppliers. The National Risk Assessment Laboratory in Cincinnati, Ohio operated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency carried out tests that showed that the LiquID is capable of detecting E. coli bacteria. Contact us