Reliable, actionable contaminant testing results start here

As global environmental regulations tighten and focus on pollutants intensifies, precise contaminant testing across water, soil, sediment, air, and biota is critical for compliance, risk assessment, and effective remediation.

With Waters, your environmental testing lab can:

  • Reliably test key organic contaminants — from PAHs to emerging pharmaceuticals, PFAS to SVOCs — with comprehensive LC- and GC/MS/MS-based analytical solutions
  • Improve sample throughput, minimize downtime, and meet changing regulatory requirements with streamlined workflows and technical support 
  • Confidently exceed regulatory requirements with the reliable, high-performance operation of accessible, future-ready systems built on sustainable, user-friendly technologies
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Comprehensive contaminant workflows that accelerate your success

As regulations and testing demands evolve, your lab must maintain turnaround times, meet quality expectations, and deliver reliable results. With Waters integrated mass spectrometry workflows, your lab can adapt quickly, scale efficiently, and consistently achieve business goals.

From sample preparation to final report, access results faster and more reliably with:

  • Application-ready consumables that deliver consistent, high-quality results, including sample preparation, supported by automation options to help you increase reproducibility, reduce manual effort, and meet quality targets with confidence.
  • Sustainable LC- and GC-MS/MS technologies to meet your preferred analytical approach, whether it be SPE cleanup, direct injection, or large volume injection for adaptable analytical strategies.
  • Next-generation waters_connect Software for efficient and consistent data review across multi-residue batches.
  • Rapid startup and long-term operational readiness with ready-to-use compound MRM databases, developed applications, and dedicated application support and system service plans to minimize onboarding time for your team.
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Repeatable results you can trust

Quality is the cornerstone of every business. With Waters quality‑designed analytical workflow solutions, your lab can achieve faster, more reliable decision‑making, reduce risk, and meet business goals with confidence.

We enable measurable outcomes by helping you:

  • Achieve consistent results through controlled column chemistries, tandem quadrupole mass spectrometry (TQ MS) performance, and interlaboratory evaluated workflows across our demo labs to reduce variability, increase method robustness, and accelerate time‑to‑reportable results.
  • Maintain method accreditation with proficiency testing products and certified reference materials to show analytical performance required by global regulatory and certification bodies, including ISO 17025.
  • Improve data handling, collaboration, and asset utilization with networked waters_connect Platform and waters_connect System Monitoring solutions.
  • Stay audit-ready with compliant-ready and LIMS-integrable software, avoiding complexity while enabling secure access, electronic signatures, and in-the-background track and trace audit trails.
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Constantly innovating for your lab

Staying ahead of tightening regulations and shifting sample demands is a challenge. With modern, purpose‑built instrumentation, connected data systems, and up‑to‑date workflows, your lab can maintain smooth operations, adapt quickly, and protect business continuity — even as regulatory expectations, technology, and market pressures continue to evolve.

With Waters, you can strengthen your operations by:

  • Reducing interruptions and extending operational efficiency with improved system stability through innovative TQ ion optics design for unparalleled system uptime and high sample throughput with extended method calibration stable up to 5 weeks.
  • Strengthening method robustness and confidently meeting detection limits by increasing sensitivity and overall method performance with the efficient UniSpray Ionization Source.
  • Staying resilient against global supply issues like helium carrier gas shortages with alternative, sustainable carrier gas of nitrogen on GC for dependable performance without added safety concerns.
  • Smoothly modernizing aging instruments through the FlexUP Technology Replacement Program.
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Long-term partnership for your enduring success

Ensure confidence in your environmental monitoring program through a strategic partnership with an experienced, award-winning provider.

By partnering with Waters, your lab will uncover:

  • Comprehensive end-to-end analytical solutions for regulated methods, including PFAS, dioxins, PAHs, pesticides, PPCPs, and emerging contaminants.
  • Innovative, accessible technologies that improve uptime, GC performance, and asset utilization, while reducing lengthy manual data review.
  • Expert project and application consultancy to support in method extension, consolidation, and development with Analytical and Laboratory Services to ensure smooth transitions and consistent data quality.
  • Our global network of scientists, engineers, and commercial operations who offer events, as well as knowledge-sharing and troubleshooting expertise.
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Find out how Waters solutions can help your lab achieve successful environmental contaminant testing results.

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