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Topic: 'Water'

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• Water Quality

  Water Quality Association Selects New Executive Director

  Following a nationwide search, the Lisle-IL based Water Quality Association has selected its new Executive Director.
• Healthy Schools

  The Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council Launches the Green Classroom Professional Certificate

  Program encourages teachers to create healthy, sustainable classrooms.
• Renovation

  Background Information for School Renovation and Repairs Checklist

  Here's the details on how to keep students and staff safe when renovating and remodeling.
• Walk Through

  EPA Walkthrough Inspection Checklist

  Use this checklist from EPA to make your IAQ walkthrough inspection as productive as it can be.
• Water Treatment

  Schools Should Consider Water Treatment to Protect Students

  The drinking water in thousands of schools contains lead and other toxins, prompting experts to urge administrators to look into treatment systems to protect students.
• Mold

  Preventing Mold Related Problems in the Indoor Workplace

  OSHA guide to preventing mold, mold sources, and building-related illnesses.
• PAH

  What are Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs)?

  Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a group of over 100 different chemicals that are formed during the incomplete burning of coal, oil and gas, garbage, or other organic substances like tobacco or charbroiled meat.
• Slip Fall Prevention

  Preventing Slip and Fall: Mastering Wet COF Measurement

  Since a floor that is slip-resistant when wet will generally be slip resistant when dry, taking measurements of the condition of floors by benchmarking the wet Coefficient of Friction (COF) is an important starting point to raise safety levels.
• CO2 Levels

  Why Measure Carbon Dioxide Inside Buildings?

  Current technology allows easy and relatively inexpensive measurement of carbon dioxide (CO2 ) as an indicator to help ensure ventilation systems (for high density occupancy zones) are delivering the recommended minimum quantities of outside air to the building’s occupants.
• Indoor Air Quality

  Four Elements of IAQ Problems

  Four elements - sources, the HVAC system, pollutant pathways, and occupants - are involved in the development of IAQ problems.
• Carpet Cleaning

  Carpet and Health

  The benefits of carpet are forgotten or ignored in the face of perceived hazards.
• Carpet Cleaning

  Health Benefits of Carpet Maintenance

  There is a widespread perception that carpet cannot be kept clean (sanitary) and that because of its inability to be kept clean, carpet contributes significantly to the deterioration of indoor environmental quality, especially leading to unhealthy indoor air quality. This unnecessary misconception often leads to policy decisions for removing carpet from many environments such as schools, health care facilities, and public agencies.
• Sustainability

  Five Sustainability Predictions for 2011

  The U.S. sustainable business market—referring to the development, manufacture, and sale of products that help us to conserve fuel, electricity, water, and natural resources and to reduce carbon emissions and greenhouse gases—will increase dramatically in 2011, making the past two years look like “baby steps.”
• Indoor Air Quality

  IAQ Basics

  There are many factors that can affect IAQ, such as human activity within the building, the building’s construction materials, and the types of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems in a building.
• Water

  Disinfection By-products: A Question of Balance

  By all accounts, disinfection of drinking water is one of the major public 
health triumphs of the 20th century. No human endeavor, however, is without risk.