Visit our session at IMPA London this September
Standards Matter - A fresh look at drinking water
Aquarex’s Jesper Bak Waller offered his experience and expertise on an article for IMPA’s Supply Chain and Sustainability Magazine on drinking water for Seafarers.
Celebrating World Refil Day
Come say Ahoy to team Aquarex at Possidonia
Revolutionising Shipboard Sanitation
We plan to clean-up at the Upcoming Limassol Boat Show!
Our innovative team at AQUAREX, a fast-growing leader in the maritime industry's drinking water purification and cleaning sector, are planning to cause a splash with live demonstrations of our pioneering sustainable sanitation and disinfection solutions.
Hot-air hand dryers are super spreaders of bacteria and viruses!
May 11, 2018
By John Ross, MD, FIDSA, Contributor; Editorial Advisory Board Member, Harvard Health Publishing
Follow me on Twitter @JohnRossMD
If you’re the kind of person who avoids public bathrooms at all costs, you may feel validated, as well as disturbed, by a new study from researchers at the University of Connecticut and Quinnipiac University. They suspected that hot-air hand dryers in public restrooms might be sucking up bacteria from the air, and dumping them on the newly washed hands of unsuspecting patrons.
To test this theory, scientists exposed petri dishes to bathroom air under different conditions and took them back to the microbiology laboratory to look for bacterial growth. Petri dishes exposed to bathroom air for two minutes with the hand dryers off only grew one colony of bacteria, or none at all. However, petri dishes exposed to hot air from a bathroom hand dryer for 30 seconds grew up to 254 colonies of bacteria (though most had from 18 to 60 colonies of bacteria).
Plastic: WHO launches health review
The World Health Organization is to launch a review into the potential risks of plastic in drinking water.
It will assess the latest research into the spread and impact of so-called microplastics - particles that are small enough to be ingested.
It comes after journalism organisation Orb Media found plastic particles in many major brands of bottled water.
There is no evidence that microplastics can undermine human health but the WHO wants to assess the state of knowledge.
What is IMPA SAVE?
IMPA SAVE is IMPA’s Council for Maritime Supply Chain Sustainability. Formed by a group of individuals representing global ship owners and maritime suppliers who are responding to the United Nations’ universal call for action to promote prosperity while protecting the environment. The council was formed in 2020 with the aim of collaborating with industry colleagues towards a more sustainable blue economy and bridging sustainable solutions to our industry.
Here's how we can eradicate plastic pollution by 2040
A new analysis published in the journal Science shows that the business-as-usual approach to tackling ocean plastic pollution isn’t working. Even worse, should we continue down the current trajectory, the amount of plastic waste entering the ocean is set to triple by 2040.