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Our guest is WQA International Operations Manager Sam De Laender. We caught up with Sam at the Aquatech Amsterdam show. We talked about his background in water, his role with WQA in Europe, his take on regulations and his work with other international trade associations.
"Point-of-Use (water filtration) is not very popular in Europe," De Laender told us. "I expect that may change over the years, specifically because of the carbon footprint aspect of bottled water. If households do anything they would probably install a Point-of-Entry softener." Plus, we’ll have our WQA Tip. The WQA Convention is April 1-3, 2020, in Orlando. Subscribe to WQA Radio on Google Play, iTunes and Stitcher. Learn more about Gold Seal | Professional Certification | Business Excellence | WQRF.
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Our guest on the latest WQA Radio podcast is D.J. Shannahan, Vice President of the Water Quality Association. D.J. joins us to talk about the value of WQA and, specifically, the WQA Convention & Exposition, when it comes to running a successful water treatment business.
"All I know is, as long as I stay active in the WQA, as long as I come to Convention and go to the educational sessions and learn to be a better dealer, then I'll be better prepared," said Shannahan. "And, if my competition chooses not to do that, well all the better for me." The Convention is April 1-3, 2020, in Orlando. Plus, we’ll have our WQA Tip. Subscribe to WQA Radio on Google Play, iTunes and Stitcher. Learn more about Gold Seal | Professional Certification | Business Excellence | WQRF.
Our guest is Kristin Licko, WQA’s Toxicology Manager. In this episode you’ll hear from Kristin about the changes to lead evaluation for product certification, one dealing with material safety and one coming down the road dealing with performance criteria.
"In year's past, a product may have passed at, say, 8 ppb, as the amount of lead that came out of it when it went through the rigorous testing to the standard," said Licko. "Those clients would like to look at their products and figure out how to reduce the amount of lead that comes out of them before their next certification cyle."
If you manufacture a product that reduces lead in drinking water, this is definitely for you. If you have any questions about product certification, reach out to goldseal@wqa.org.
Plus, we’ll have our WQA Tip. Subscribe to WQA Radio on Google Play, iTunes and Stitcher. Learn more about Gold Seal | Professional Certification | Business Excellence | WQRF.
Our guest is Scott Batiste, CEO of Puronics, and he'll talk about what he sees as important industry challenges in 2020 and beyond.
Puronics, a point-of-use and point-of-entry water treatment manufacturer, sponsored the Industry Update Luncheon at the WQA Mid-Year Leadership Conference. Among other things, you'll hear how Scott deals with the challenge of finding new talent in this tight labor market. Plus, we’ll have our WQA Tip. Subscribe to WQA Radio on Google Play, iTunes and Stitcher. Learn more about Gold Seal | Professional Certification | Business Excellence | WQRF.
Our guest is Mike Heatwole, Sales Manager at May Supply Co. in Harrisonburg, Va., talking with us bout a creative local charity the company started called Waters of Hope.
Mike describes how his staff brought together supplies, contractors and donations from the community to install water treatment systems in the homes of children with cancer. Children undergoing cancer treatment have compromised immune systems and need the extra insurance of a POU/POE system to stay at home with their families. Mike says that once the company started one project, it snow-balled, and the community really pitched in to help in a variety of unexpected ways. Susan Keaton caught up with Mike at the WQA Mid-Year Leadership Conference in San Antonio in September. Subscribe to WQA Radio on Google Play, iTunes and Stitcher. Learn more about Gold Seal | Professional Certification | Business Excellence | WQRF.
Our guest is Amanda Crangle, whose company Lamplight Digital Media is a full-service digital agency helping local water treatment companies with their digital marketing. Lamplight is a WQA Industry Partner.
Amanda will talk about online marketing, digital ads, and the ongoing need to experiment with your digital content. Plus, we’ll get a Regulatory Update from Kathleen Fultz, and we'll have our WQA Tip. Subscribe to WQA Radio on Google Play, iTunes and Stitcher. Learn more about Gold Seal | Professional Certification | Business Excellence | WQRF.
Our guest is Tanya Lubner, PhD and the WQA Professional Certification and Training Director.
In this episode you’ll hear the conversation Tanya and WQA Marketing & Communication Director Wes Bleed had during our recent WQA Coffee Break on Facebook, where they offered helpful tips and ideas for utilizing WQA's Modular Education program. We'll also hear from WQA Training and Program Coordinator John McCartan about how you can use the MEP as a great on-boarding tool with new hires. Check out WQA's Facebook page to see a video replay of the "Coffee Break." Subscribe to WQA Radio on Google Play, iTunes and Stitcher. Learn more about Gold Seal | Professional Certification | Business Excellence | WQRF.
Our guests are Dr. Chad Seidel, and Dr. Carleigh Samson from Corona Environmental Consulting, talking about the Water Quality Research Foundation’s Contaminant Occurrence Study.
We talk with them about the types of contaminants they are studying, where the data is coming from, what they’ll do with the data and the impact of the research on the water treatment industry. Subscribe to WQA Radio on Google Play, iTunes and Stitcher. Learn more about Gold Seal | Professional Certification | Business Excellence | WQRF.
In this episode we feature a portion of a panel discussion during our Industry Update Luncheon at the WQA Mid-Year Leadership Conference in San Antonio, Texas.
You'll hear from Tanya Lubner, WQA's Professional Certification & Training Director; Kelli Fleischmann, the WQA Product Certification Director; Eric Yeggy, WQA’s Technical Affairs director; and David Loveday, the WQA Global Government Affairs director. The discussion was moderated by WQA Associate Executive Director for Member & Public Engagement Tom Bruursema. Subscribe to WQA Radio on Google Play, iTunes and Stitcher. Learn more about Gold Seal | Professional Certification | Business Excellence | WQRF.
In this episode of WQA Radio, our guest is Dr. Marc Verhougstraete with the University of Arizona and co-author of the Cost-Benefit study of point-of-use water treatment devices funded by the Water Quality Research Foundation.
He talks about how they calculated the lifetime economic loss to the city of Flint, Michigan from lead in drinking water, and how he sees the impact of the study in the months and years to come. Subscribe to WQA Radio on Google Play, iTunes and Stitcher. Learn more about Gold Seal | Professional Certification | Business Excellence | WQRF. |
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