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The mission of 120WaterAudit is to provide consumers and institutions across the United States with regular laboratory water tests of high quality. The company also provides consumers and institutions with an easy and reliable solution to test their water supply for harmful contaminants. Just half the story is knowing what’s in the water. The advantage of selecting a test partner in the water quality business for 25 years is what 120WaterAudit knows about water. The company helps to know what should be tested, how often, and what options are available for decontamination. Drinking water can be contaminated due to internal plumbing devices. Consequently, the Water AuditSM test at the point of use is the only way to ensure that the water is safely consumed.
Public water systems (PWS) in the U.S. regulate more than 90 pollutants under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). The Lead and Copper Regulations (LCR) are one of the most complicated rules to implement, but this is only the rule where the PWS can go beyond the meter to retrieve a sample of water from a customer’s house. While this event and the program intricacies around it are currently a triennial occurrence in most states, it can often be a resource burden and a compliance risk for many public water systems in the U.S.
Water AuditSM is a cloud-based software technology platform used to test kits and complementary services to manage the complete cycle of Lead Service Line Replacement, Copper Compliance, and Customer Water AuditSM Test Request programs. 120WaterAudit is the company that uses the Water AuditSM platform. The company's Software as Service (SaaS) platform is licensed and configured to meet and exceed the requirements of comprehensive management programmes. Shipping and tracking Water AuditSM test kits minimize the operational burden of exponentially growing consumer demand.
120WaterAudit, based in Zionsville, was chosen for a global accelerator that solely focused on innovative water solutions. The cloud-based water test and service platform is part of the ImagineH20 program with 12 other big companies from five countries. A panel of 30 judges chose the attendees from a pool of over 250 applicants from all over the world. The accelerator gives participants access to mentors to assist launch and scale their businesses with visibility and marketing.
The Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) is one of the 90 primary contaminant agencies and the regulatory function of public water systems. For the lead in the Flint water crisis, however, federal and state policymakers and regulators saw an existential transition in the drinking water industry that drives policy reforms, replaces infrastructure, and redefines what it means to be a public water system that provides safe drinking water for the public.
