Welcome to the DWI Research pages.
We believe that good quality science is crucial in the provision of credible and authoritative information on the health aspects of drinking water quality and it helps ensure that standards and regulations are adequate to protect public health. The DWI spends around £550K annually on research and development on drinking water quality issues.
These research web pages provides information to the aims and objectives of our research programme, access to the results and publications, and details of future research competitions. Summaries of our research output can also be found in the Chief Inspector’s report.
Enquiries about the DWI research programme, including publications of past research, should be directed to DWI Enquiries.
What’s new
DWI commissioned this project to understand the potential risk from 22 Persistent, Mobile and Toxic (PMT) substances to drinking water sources in England and Wales.…
This report provides a summary of a study commissioned by the Drinking Water Inspectorate to understand public attitudes and public acceptability towards water recycling (water…
Current water treatment processes represent an effective method for removing particles across a wide size range, and microplastics can be considered as another type of…
The DWI initiated research into fully quantitative analytical methods for 20 PFAS for use in testing drinking water in 2020, and the Method has now…
DWI commissioned this literature review gap analysis project to understand whether OPFRs are likely to occur in source waters and drinking water. The project identified…
