Water Analysis
If you are involved in water quality analysis, our established workflows save you time in method development and sample preparation and ensure your results are accurate and reliable. Whether you are involved in the testing of drinking water, wastewater, surface or ground water, PerkinElmer can provide you with easy-to-use, cost-effective solutions to suit any workload – large numbers of everyday samples, quick turnarounds and emergencies, even testing in the field and on the fly. Solutions for environmental professionals that do whatever it takes to ensure their customers and stakeholders receive reliable and accurate analytical testing for ensuring water quality and human health.
Water Analysis Spotlight
Resources

What's in Your Water? A Deep Dive into Drinking Water Contaminants
As diverse contaminants increasingly threaten our drinking water supplies, water quality analysis has become critical for protecting public health.
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ISO 17294 Water Analyzer - Compliance Without Complexity
Built on robust, flexible technology that enables labs to comply with ISO 17294-2, PerkinElmer’s ISO 17294 Water Analyzer allows you to quickly begin analyzing ...
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NexION 2200 ICP-MS: Helping Ensure Safe, Sustainable Water Supplies
Environmental laboratories conducting trace-elemental analyses of water need a robust instrument that requires as little maintenance as possible. For municipal ...
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Customer Spotlight: Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA)
Representatives from the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) discuss their investigation into the presence of microplastics in the Arctic Ocean. The r ...
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Drinking Water Analysis Webinar Series
Emerging contaminants include a variety of different chemical pollutants including pharmaceuticals, personal care products, endocrine disrupting compounds, per- ...
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Mitigation of PFAS in Drinking Water Through Analytical Innovation
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have gained significant attention as an emerging environmental and safety threat in the United States. Since the 1940 ...
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PFAS Analysis Brochure
PerkinElmer offers a portfolio of high-performance solutions to optimize your laboratory workflow for PFAS analysis. Our robust and reliable LC/MS/MS systems al ...
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A Review of EU Drinking Water Regulations
This white paper is designed to provide an overview of the evolving regulations as laid out in the proposed new EU drinking water standards. It offers a summary ...
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Drinking Water Analysis Solutions Interactive Brochure
Clean and pure drinking water is a necessity. That’s why governments, contract labs, utilities and regulatory agencies test a high volume of samples, time-sensi ...
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Unparalleled Robustness in Drinking Water Analysis with Proprietary Universal Collision-Reaction Gas Technology
Safe drinking water is vital for human health, necessitating rigorous monitoring to ensure its quality. Detecting trace elements in drinking water poses signifi ...
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Emerging Contaminants in Water: Type and Testing
Ensuring the purity of each drop of water through an advanced mass spectrometer is the goaof every dedicated water analyst. Diligence is crucial, as the number ...
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EnviroChat Interviews
As part of our efforts to educate ourselves and our customers, we are actively engaged with researchers and subject matter experts from around the world to expl ...
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PFAS Health Concerns in Air, Water and Soil
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are stable in the environment and can accumulate over time.
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Weld County Colorado Partners with PerkinElmer to Optimize Water Testing
The Weld County Public Health Laboratory works in conjunction with both the Environmental Health and the Public Health Education departments to support a variet ...

Going Underground with the Orange County Water District
The Orange County Water District Advanced Water Quality Assurance Laboratory processes over 20,000 samples of water a year and relies on PerkinElmer instrumenta ...

Diving into a Holistic Approach to Water Ecosystem Management
“Water is life,” as Dr. Luca Lucentini of Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), is fond of saying. The availability and safety of water supplies is a global chall ...
Webinars

From Concept to Application: Optimizing the NexION 5000 Multi-quadrupole ICP-MS for Accurate and Sensitive Environmental Analysis
In the realm of environmental analysis, the demand for accuracy and sensitivity is paramount, particularly in western North America, where contaminants from min ...

How Low Can They Go? Exploring Trace Metal Biogeochemistry on the Living Skin of the Greenland Ice Sheet
In this webinar, Jon Hawkings, Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, explores the relationship between glaciers and trace metals. By delving in ...

Conquering Compliance: Robust Testing Solutions for Metals & PFAS in Water
When it comes to water analysis, it can be challenging for labs to keep up with ever-changing testing regulations whilst also executing time efficient, accurate ...

Overcoming Common Challenges in Waste and Surface Water Analysis
Laboratories performing wastewater, surface water, and effluent testing contend with a multitude of demands: Analyzing a diverse range of contaminants, which ma ...

Tackling the Global Water Crisis: A Focus on Water Quality
Dr. Hartwig Kremer, Head of Global Environment Monitoring Systems (GEMS) & World Water Quality Alliance (WWQA) Coordination Team Leader at the United Nations En ...

Accurate and Efficient Analysis of PFAS by EPA Method 1633
Join this webinar for an in-depth discussion on PFAS analysis according to EPA Method 1633, while identifying and mitigating background contamination. EPA Metho ...

Rapid, Green Method for Testing Hydrocarbon Contamination in Environmental Water Sample
This webinar highlights a rapid, green method (ASTM D7575) for testing hydrocarbon contamination in environmental water samples.

Microextraction Approaches for Environmental Monitoring of Emerging Contaminants
During the PerkinElmer Global Environmental Sciences Summit, Dr. Emanuela Gionfriddo gave a talk on microextraction approaches for environmental monitoring of e ...

Low Doses of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds: Implications for the Chemical Enterprise
Dr. Pete Myers, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and Chief Scientist at Environmental Health Sciences, spoke at PerkinElmer’s Global Environmental Scienc ...

New Risks from Emerging Pollutants in the Marine Environment
Professor Francesco Regoli, of the Polytechnic University of Marche, provides an overview of the risks posed by emerging pollutants such as microplastics and ph ...

Validation Method for the Determination of Pesticides in Water by LC/MS/MS
Dr. Floriane Queiroga, Research and Development Director at La Drome Laboratoire, recently spoke at the PerkinElmer Global Environmental Sciences Summit and sha ...

Water Contaminants: Analysis of PFAS Using LC/MS/MS Technology
Over the past decade, awareness and concern about Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) has grown and led to more in-depth analysis of these compounds and ...

Determination of Emerging Contaminants in Water by LC-MS/MS
Emerging contaminants in water continue to be an environmental concern. They include categories of chemicals such as pharmaceuticals and personal care products ...

Water Contaminants: Analysis of Polar Contaminants and Glyphosate with QSight® LC-MS/MS
Water quality standards include a wide range of priority substances which pose a significant risk to human health. These substances include a large number of po ...

Optimizing Your Performance Efficiency and Budget for Organic Drinking Water Methods
This webinar discusses a number of topics relating to emerging contaminant analysis and workflow including the use of on-line solid phase extraction to improve ...

What’s in Your Water? Monitoring Cyanotoxins in Drinking Water by LC-MS/MS
Growing environmental concern has led to stricter regulations of drinking water and water supplies over the past decade including routine monitoring and detecti ...

What’s in Your Water? Monitoring Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Drinking Water by LC-MS/MS
Pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPS) are an emerging environmental concern and include human and veterinary prescriptions, over-the-counter medicat ...
Applications

Analysis of Drinking Water Using Universal Collision-Reaction Gas Technology on the NexION 1100 ICP-MS
The most significant challenge in trace element analysis of drinking water is ensuring detection capability that complies with the regulatory framework at the s ...

Multi-Element Analysis of Drinking Water Following ISO 17294-2 Using the NexION 1100 ICP-MS
To help ensure the quality and safety of drinking water, the international standard method ISO 17294 outlines the analysis of elements using inductively coupled ...

LC/MS/MS: Analysis of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Aqueous Samples by EPA Method 1633
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of synthetic chemicals developed in the 1940s, and widely used for their surfactant properties. Due to th ...

Analysis of Trace Elements in Coastal Seawater Using the NexION 2200 ICP-MS
Coastal oceans house a wealth of marine life and serve as the primary source of global seafood production. However, with the increasing industrialization of bot ...

Multi-Element Analysis of Drinking Water Following GB/T-5750.6-2023 Using the NexION 1100 ICP-MS
As a vital resource for human consumption, the quality of drinking water is of utmost importance. To help ensure its quality and safety, method GB/T-5750.6 spec ...

Measurement of lodine in Drinking Water Following GB/T-5750.5-2023 Using the NexION 1100 ICP-MS
Iodine is an essential trace element for human health, but excessive or insufficient intake can cause thyroid disorders. Iodine can also be introduced into wate ...

LC/MS/MS: Improved Throughput and Flexibility for Compliant Drinking Water Analysis with Dual Source Capability
Governing bodies have implemented various directives to monitor acrylamide in drinking water. This also applies in the European Union where the water framework ...

LC/MS/MS: Optimized Approach for the Analysis of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Aqueous Samples by EPA Method 1633
Growing health concerns regarding PFAS and their prevalence in consumer goods and the environment indicate a critical need to execute existing and upcoming regu ...

Analysis of PFAS in Drinking Water by Large Volume Direct Injection Following the EU Drinking Water Directive 2020/2184
This application note highlights the LC/MS/MS analysis of PFAS compounds according to the European Union Water Framework Directive 2020/2184. It demonstrates ho ...
Water Analysis Solutions

Drinking Water Analysis
Ensuring drinking water resources meet regulatory requirements and are safe for human consumption requires the testing for a wide range of possible contaminants ...

Surface/Ground Water Analysis
Monitoring surface and ground water provides environmental professionals with the necessary information to ensure both environmental as well as human health. Wh ...

Wastewater Analysis
Laboratories must ensure municipal and industrial wastewater is safe before it is discharged into surface waters. To comply with these rigorous standards, scien ...

ISO 17294 Water Analyzer
For water analysis in accordance with ISO 17294-2 water quality regulations, there’s no easier, more effective way to get up and running – in compliance – than ...

Seawater Analysis
The health of our oceans is a critical topic as we work to ensure environmental and human well-being. These vast bodies of water cover 70% of the earth’s surfac ...

Water Reuse & Water Recycling
As our water supplies come under increasing pressure, it is essential that we examine our water management practices and explore ways to optimize our efficient ...
Featured Water Analysis Products

Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS)
When analyzing food, and environmental samples, laboratories need multiple system to get the qualitative and quantitative information on contaminants, resulting ...

Consumables & Accessories
Your partnership with PerkinElmer doesn't stop when you purchase an instrument. We also have a complete line of consumables and accessories engineered to keep t ...