Drinking Water Databases

Search our databases online: Newsletter | Literature | RESULTS

Or, we can search our databases for you.

For a search of the NDWC drinking water information databases, please call (800) 624-8301 or (304) 293-4191 and ask to speak with a drinking water technical assistance specialist.

About Our Databases:


Newsletter Database - This search engine can be used to locate articles on specific topics that were written about in On Tap and Water Sense, NESC's former drinking water newsletters. Once you search for a topic, you can download an electronic copy of the newsletter in which the article appeared. Not all newsletters dating back to 1992 are available for downloading at this time; however, they soon will be.

If you prefer to have printed versions of the newsletters, contact NESC. Back issues will be sent to you free of charge.

If your search results in no newsletter articles about your keyword subject, call and ask to speak with a drinking water technical assistance specialist. Staff can research your topic and provide you with information.

 Literature Database - NESC's Drinking Water Literature Database contains more than 1000 article abstracts from trade and scientific journals, research papers, and government documents. Topics include wellhead protection, drinking water regulations, water conservation, treatment technologies, and operation and maintenance of water treatment systems.

Technical assistance specialists conduct literature searches for callers that provide journal and article titles, volume numbers, author names, and an abstract or summary, which helps you decide if the information contained in the article is what you really need.

The database contains information from the NESC’s two former drinking water newsletters, On Tap and Water Sense. Topics covered in past issues include:
• groundwater protection,
• water system design,
• water treatment processes,
• water conservation,
• drinking water regulations,
• water quality, and
• finance.

RESULTS Database

If you have questions about treatment technologies, suppliers, or related topics, call NESC at (800) 624-8301 and ask to speak with a technical assistance specialist. They can search the database to find the answers you are looking for.

The Registry of Equipment Suppliers of Treatment Technologies for Small Systems (RESULTS) database gives small communities and regulators information about technologies successfully used across the U.S. RESULTS is a valuable tool for evaluating different technologies when replacing or upgrading current treatment systems. Equipment suppliers will also find RESULTS to be an effective marketing tool for reaching potential customers.

The most recent RESULTS version includes information from more than 1,000 sites, including all 50 states and some systems in Canada. The database also includes approximately 250 vendors who manufacture and supply drinking water technologies.

RESULTS presents a number of technologies including filtration, corrosion control, ion exchange and demineralization, aeration, disinfection and oxidation, and organics and inorganics removal.

Searching the database is easy. Using different criteria, searches may be conducted to learn the location of a particular system, vendors, or manufacturers of certain technologies; a specific technology used by another system; and the type of drinking water contaminant removed.
This most recent version of RESULTS is an NDWC project funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).


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