Water Quality Samples - check NATA Accreditation

Did you know that anyone taking bacto/water quality samples of drinking water needs to be NATA accredited?

Recently, we've become aware of a testing company in NSW who offers drinking water quality sampling but they're not NATA accredited yet and therefore the results would not be valid.

The company have applied, and are expecting to receive an outcome by the end July.

We wanted to flag this as Unitywater cannot allow live works (water) where bacto's have been undertaken from non-NATA approved drinking water quality samplers.

You can check that any company conducting bacterial testing associated with water connections has the appropriate NATA accreditation. Search accredited organisations - NATA 

A snippet is provided below of what the data base shows for the company in question, we've blocked out their names/details for obvious reasons - you can see they're approved for some testing, but water quality sampling is not listed.