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IDEXX Water understands that education is essential to building your technical knowledge and enhancing your laboratory skills.
Our educational offerings are part of an ongoing commitment to our customers to help you grow professionally and personally through online training, live webinars, and industry news articles.
IDEXX Water Academy
Featured Courses
NEW! Get to Know: Confidence Limits and Confidence Intervals
Have you ever heard of confidence limits or confidence intervals? If you would like to learn more about what these terms mean and why they are so important in microbiological water testing, this course is for you! This short course provides an overview of confidence limits and confidence intervals and their importance in the water testing industry.
NEW! Water Microbiology: An Introduction
In this introductory course, you will explore fundamental elements of water microbiology. Learn more about what water microbiology is and why it is so important, explore an overview of important waterborne pathogens such as total coliforms, E. coli, enterococcus, and pseudomonas, and discover what is meant by bacterial indicators and the important role the indicator concept plays in water microbiology.
With over one hundred courses and videos available, with more continuously being added, learning is just a click away. To register or sign in, use the link below.
Water webinars
Live online interactive events
Upcoming live webinars
If you register and are unable to attend the webinar, you will receive a link to the recording.
Quality Control: A Refreshed Approach to Positive and Negative Culture Controls
Tuesday, April 15
1:00-2:00 PM EST
Establishing and maintaining robust quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) practices is essential for every environmental laboratory team. This webinar will explore how water testing laboratories may be able to achieve low-risk cost savings and efficiencies by updating their approach to one specific QA/QC practice: performing positive and negative culture controls.
Patsy Root, Senior Manager of Government Affairs, will discuss regulatory requirements for quality control, especially for positive and negative culture controls. Product Manager Emily Frawley will delve into the quality control process in more detail, offering best practices for using positive and negative culture controls. Jeff Bates, Senior Marketing Manager, will explore various methods for performing positive and negative culture controls. The webinar will also feature an interactive Q&A session during which the team will answer your questions.
Register Now for Quality Control
What Do Laboratory Auditors Look For?
Tuesday, May 13
1:00-2:00 PM EST
Join us for a webinar designed to help you navigate the complexities of the laboratory audit process and get your questions answered.
This webinar features guest speaker Michelle Wade, an accreditation program trainer and assessor, who will share her expertise on audits and conformity assessments. This webinar will cover:
- Preparation Tips: How to effectively prepare for an audit.
- Audit Expectations: What to expect during an audit.
- Post-Audit Actions: How to follow up after an audit.
The webinar also includes an extensive Q&A session where Michelle will answer your audit-related questions.
IDEXX Currents
Water industry news and trends written by industry experts
River Quality Worldwide Suffers from Extreme Weather Events
Extreme weather events due to the changing climate make managing river water quality and quantity tougher than ever. But precisely how water quality responds to recurring and severe weather extremes—and why—is not well understood, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Digital Twins Optimize Water Management
In recent decades, analytics for real-time and historical data as well as models that help predict performance have helped advance water management. Read how these connected technologies give water system and lab managers better tools for efficiency.