Thursday, September 19, 2024

Codes & Standards

2020 Standards Activity

The year 2020 has been year abounding with uncertainty, disruption, and challenges. Despite this chaos, the 2020 product standards activities have managed to be...

EPA Final Lead Free Ruling

On Sept. 1, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final regulation on the “Use of Lead-Free Pipes, Fittings, Fixtures, Solder and...

Backflow Standards Activity

In keeping with its motto, “Prevention Rather Than Cure,” ASSE International is in the final stage of review and publication of four of its...

ASSE Series 5000 Revision

Each year I look forward to the annual backflow issue of Working Pressure magazine. Backflow prevention is what ASSE is best known for and...

Training, Legionella

Our world has changed so much in the last few months. It feels more like a decade than a matter of four months. Fortunately,...

AWG Innovators Tap Infinitely Renewable Clean Water Source

Water from the air. We see it on cold glasses in the summer. We feel it when a...

The Water Demand Calculator Leaves Home

Instantaneous peak water demand is an important consideration when designing a new building. The peak water demand affects the scale and cost...

Reverse Osmosis Water Efficiency

ASSE International recently published ASSE 1086, Performance Requirements for Reverse Osmosis Water Efficiency – Drinking Water. The standard was developed in response to the...

Backflow & Plumbing at 10,000 ft.

ASSE International is working with the worlds largest airplane manufacturers, as well as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to develop a standard...

ASSE 1086-2020 for Reverse Osmosis Water Efficiency – Drinking Water Now...

ASSE 1086-2020, Reverse Osmosis Water Efficiency – Drinking Water, has been designated as an American National Standard by the American National Standards...