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PRISMEDICAL Water Database
During 2002 PRISMEDICAL, the Office of Naval Research and the FDA agreed that there would be value in defining the surface water characteristics likely to be encountered in field settings and developing a purification device capable of mitigating those contaminants representing potential hazards to human health. Within a year, a database of historical water measurements was developed which is believed to be the largest such database in existence. Regionally the database includes the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Panama Canal Zone, American Samoa, the American Virgin Islands, Wake Island, Guam and all U. S. protectorates.
Our water database includes more than 9 billion data points related to more than 7,000 water contaminant parameters. The data were derived from statistics submitted to the EPA, the U.S. Geological Survey and reporting water municipalities between 1900 through 1998. The structure of the database provides a means of statistical analysis enabling prediction of the probability of encountering a given concentration of a specific contaminant. The probability analysis was coupled with information in reliable toxicology databases (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry within the Center for Disease Control, Risk Assessment Information System and World Health Organization toxicology database). This enabled prediction of the potential toxic hazard represented by the concentrations of specific contaminants likely to be encountered in surface water. In addition, this information helped define the level of purification required to achieve the No Observed Adverse Effect Level (NOAEL), which is the non-toxic concentration for a given substance either ingested or inoculated.
PRISMEDICAL continues to develop purification devices to successfully mitigate identified hazardous concentrations of contaminants in surface waters. Please check back, as PRISMEDICAL plans to enable visitors to our website to query our database for historical contaminants found in the water near their home or in a place to which they are planning to travel. Use of the database is planned to include mapping and determining the probability of encountering selected contaminants.
Our water database includes more than 9 billion data points related to more than 7,000 water contaminant parameters. The data were derived from statistics submitted to the EPA, the U.S. Geological Survey and reporting water municipalities between 1900 through 1998. The structure of the database provides a means of statistical analysis enabling prediction of the probability of encountering a given concentration of a specific contaminant. The probability analysis was coupled with information in reliable toxicology databases (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry within the Center for Disease Control, Risk Assessment Information System and World Health Organization toxicology database). This enabled prediction of the potential toxic hazard represented by the concentrations of specific contaminants likely to be encountered in surface water. In addition, this information helped define the level of purification required to achieve the No Observed Adverse Effect Level (NOAEL), which is the non-toxic concentration for a given substance either ingested or inoculated.
PRISMEDICAL continues to develop purification devices to successfully mitigate identified hazardous concentrations of contaminants in surface waters. Please check back, as PRISMEDICAL plans to enable visitors to our website to query our database for historical contaminants found in the water near their home or in a place to which they are planning to travel. Use of the database is planned to include mapping and determining the probability of encountering selected contaminants.