Dr. Frank Brauer (Chairman)
Advisory board in the Water Standards Committee
DIN NA 119-09 FB
Water testing department (CEN/TC 230, ISO/TC 147)

Standardization coordinator of the Society of Water Chemistry

Testing, standardization and further development of analytical methods

Since its founding in 1926, one of the goals of the Society of Water Chemistry has been to standardize testing procedures for assessing water quality. In 1928, a committee was established specifically for this purpose, which today operates under the name "Main Committee I: Analytical Methods - Development and Standardization." Since then, members of the Society of Water Chemistry have played a central role in the standardization of analytical methods in the field of water and sludge testing with their expertise. They contribute to ensuring that citable procedural regulations in the form of standards are available for legislative purposes.

In 1935, the "Physical and Chemical Standard Procedures" were first published by Chemie Verlag, and a revised and expanded edition was published in 1953 under the title "German Standard Procedures for Water Analysis." In 1960, the " German Standard Procedures for Water, Wastewater, and Sludge Analysis " were published as a loose-leaf collection, allowing individual regulations to be replaced with new versions as needed.

Since 1976, an agreement has existed between the Division and the DIN German Institute for Standardization (DIN), according to which the standard methods are gradually incorporated into DIN standards, and new standard methods are developed by the Society of Water Chemistry in cooperation with the Water Standards Committee. All DIN standards based on the standard methods are also published in this collection. In Technical Committee 147 "Water Quality" of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), international standards on water quality are developed under German leadership. In some cases, these standards are incorporated into the German body of standards in the form of DIN-ISO standards; they are then also published in this collection. In the Comité Européen de Normalisation (CEN), Technical Committee 230, under German leadership, the European Standards (EN) for water analysis are developed. European standards must be incorporated unchanged into the national body of standards and then replace conflicting DIN standards. European standards on water analysis are generally also incorporated into this loose-leaf collection. ISO standards that are adopted at European level or developed in parallel appear as DIN-EN-ISO standards.

By 2025, approximately 380 measurement and testing procedures could be standardized in one of the ways mentioned above.

Further information on standardization work & DEV

 

• DIN Standards Committee Water Management (NAW): including projects, drafts, publications

• NA 119-09 FB Water Analysis: Mirror committee to CEN/TC 230, ISO/TC 147
• Draft Standards Portal: The Online portal for draft standards from DIN offers free access to current draft standards and the opportunity to comment on them online.
• DIN Media: Product search (standards, draft standards, historical documents)
• CEN/TC 230 “Water analysis”
• ISO/TC 147 “Water quality”