NSF International — founded by University of Michigan public health faculty during the polio pandemic of the 1950’s — has since grown to be one of the first names in standard setting for public health; drinking water safety high among its priorities.
NSF International continuously maintains its consensus products on a continuous maintenance basis. NSF 53 Drinking Water Treatment Units is one of several related water safety titles in its bibliography:
It is the purpose of this Standard to establish minimum requirements for materials, design and construction, and performance of point-of-use and point-of-entry drinking-water treatment systems that are designed to reduce specific health-related contaminants in public or private water supplies. Such systems include point-of-entry drinking-water treatment systems used to treat all or part of the water at the inlet to a residential facility or a bottled water production facility, and includes the material and components used in these systems. This Standard also specifies the minimum product literature and labeling information that a manufacturer shall supply to authorized representatives and system owners, as well as the minimum service-related obligations that the manufacturer shall extend to system owners.
In last week’s ANSI Standards Action NSF International posted changes to NSF 53 Drinking Water Treatment Units; available at the link below:
ANSI Standards Action Pages 2 and 6
The proposed change remedies the lack of requirements for conditioning and conditioning volumes in the presence of microcystin; a type of toxin produced by freshwater blue-green algae.
Comments are due August 2nd.
Because NSF International posts its redlines in ANSI standards action, and also on NSF Online Workspace; it is easier respond to calls for public comment. This facility is especially important in the public safety domain.
You may communicate directly with the NSF Joint Committee Chairperson, Mr. Tom Vyles ([email protected]) about arranging direct access as an observer or technical committee member. Almost all ANSI accredited technical committees have a shortage of user-interests (compliance officers, manufacturers and installers usually dominate).
We encourage front line staff with experience, data and war stories to participate by communicating with Tom Vyles. We also host a periodic teleconference on the topic of the twenty-odd water safety and sustainability consensus products that affect #TotalCostofOwnership of education communities. See our CALENDAR for the next Water and Sport teleconferences; open to everyone.
Issue: [13-89]
Category: Athletic Facilities. Water Safety
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Ron George, Larry Spielvogel