- One person
- This week's Frontiers Interview, in three paragraphs and a clip.
- One idea
- A technical development worth understanding.
- One number
- A figure from the industry, with its source.
- One build
- A tool, instrument or method someone is building.
- One question
- Something the industry should be discussing.
Regular features
What every issue is built from- Frontiers Interview
Long conversations with the people setting direction in water, on video and in print.
- Operator Notes
Plant and network operators on the problems they deal with every shift.
- Lab Notes
Scientists walk through an experiment, a method or a result.
- Utility of the Month
One utility, its people and how it runs.
- Field Notes
On site for sampling, pilots and deployments.
- The Water Question
One hard question put to five to ten people who work on it.
- How It Works
Plain explanations of qPCR, sequencing, flow cytometry, biosensors and eDNA.
- Future of Water
Long reads on the technologies that are coming next.
The Water Question
Will wastewater surveillance become routine infrastructure?
We put one hard question to utility directors, public health scientists and the people who build the tests. Their answers run in the magazine and on the site.
The beat
What we report on- Wastewater surveillance
- Drinking-water microbiology
- Pathogen detection
- qPCR
- Legionella
- E. coli
- Environmental DNA
- PFAS
- Harmful algal blooms
- Sequencing
- Lab automation
- Process control and optimization
- Chemical dosing
- Biosurveillance
- Recreational water
- Aquaculture
- Environmental sensors
Your host
Nisha Sarveswaran
Nisha hosts every Frontiers Interview. She sits down with operators, scientists, regulators and builders, and asks what they would fix first if they could measure anything.
Newsletter
The Frontier, weekly
Five things, five minutes, every week. The best conversation we had, one idea, one number, one thing being built and one question the industry should be asking.
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In print
A magazine with people on the cover
Every story runs here first. A few times a year the best of them go to print, and copies go to the people in them and the people running the industry.