The WQA Podcast

Our guest is Dr. Kelly Reynolds, talking about the Household Point of Use Pathogen study funded by the Water Quality Research Foundation, WQRF.

In this episode, Dr. Reynolds summarizes and then answers questions about her POU Pathogen study during a recent “In the Know” WQRF webinar. The results of the study indicated that household water treatment filters can be used for large volume monitoring of drinking water quality at the point-of-use, but that retention of introduced pathogens on the tested filter is low and may still underestimate risk.

Plus, we’ll have our WQA Tip.

Our guest is WQA International Operations Manager Sam DeLaender. 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. Plus, we’ll have our WQA Tip.

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Our guest is DJ Shannahan, Vice President of the Water Quality Association. DJ joins us to talk about the value of WQA and, specifically, WQA Convention, when it comes to running a successful water treatment business.

The WQA Convention take place in Orlando April 1-3, 2020. DJ offers his thoughts about its importance for the water treatment industry, and discusses his keys to running a successful dealer business. Plus, we’ll have our WQA Tip.

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. If you manufacture a product that contains lead or reduces lead in drinking water, this is definitely for you. Plus, we’ll have our WQA Tip.

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.

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 started its own community service project, bringing 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.

Plus, we’ll get a Regulatory Update from Kathleen Fultz and our WQA Tip.

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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.

She’ll 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.

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 for tremendous on-boarding efforts with new hires.

Check out WQA's Facebook page to see a video replay of the "Coffee Break."

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.

Plus we'll have the WQA Tip.

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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 Dr. 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.

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