UK-based water utility South West Water has received a monitoring solution from PerkinElmer for water services in southern England.
PerkinElmer's NexION 300 ICP-MS instrument will allow the company to deliver safe water to 1.6 million people and businesses in the UK through advanced analytical monitoring.
The utility will use it to test for 28 different elements in drinking water and sewage networks as part of a regional monitoring system.
PerkinElmer Analytical Sciences and Laboratory Services president Dusty Tenney said of the collaboration: "High-quality water is essential to human health and a clean environment. PerkinElmer is committed to providing solutions to enable water utilities to maintain robust analytical capabilities in order to ensure an uninterrupted supply to their customers."
South West Water's testing facilities can now handle changes in current and future sample matrices by choosing between the different testing modes available on the NexION platform.
PerkinElmer said analysts have been able to easily streamline their previous methods to cover the required analysis of 28 elements using only the NexION, without increasing sample times.
