Water+purification+chemist

= Water Purification Chemist =



A Water purification chemist analyzes water in a purification plant to control chemical processes which soften it or make it suitable for drinking. They analyze samples of filtered water to ensure that quantities ofsolids left in the suspension are below prescribes limits. Also they determines amounts of chlorine to be used in chlorinators to destroy microbes and other harmful organisms. Determines kinds and amounts of chemicals to be used in removing minerals, acids, salts, and other inorganic compounds from water to soften it. Tests samples extracted from various points in distribution system, such as mains, tanks, pumps, and outlets, to discover possible sources of water contamination. Under direction of an environmental scientist or specialist, may collect samples of gases, soil, water, and other materials for testing and take corrective actions as assigned. **
 * Job Decription:

Most positions include fieldwork but most of the industrial water chemist spend their time in a lab. To work in an industry most have to be flexible with traveling over seas. Most work hours vary from either nine to five, night hours or if their working in a certain prokect then weekends too. **
 * Personality Characters: **
 * To do this job you must like water and chemistry. Also you must be good with people and able to communitate to youor customers well. You must be able to travel around and not mind driving aroud to country side looking for the house your suppose to be working on. **
 * Working C ondition:

**They can get** **a job at water treatment plants and at they can also be self employed. They can go around fixing peoples water for them if it has impureities and is to hard or soft.**
 * Places of Employment: **

** Job Outlook: **
 * Opportunities in fresh water treatment plants should increase as new plants are built to meet the needs of a growing population. Also, public water systems will need more laboratory personnel to meet regulations and water quality standards. Openings in wastewater treatment and pollution control are predicted to grow as tighter controls and increased monitoring of discharges are ordered by current and future legislation. **

** Salary Information: ** ** Recommended Education and Training: ** Experience: A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified. **
 * Starting salaries for an experienced and an inexperienced BS chemist in $24,400. Industry chemists with a BS range about 23,00. Inexperienced doctorate chemists in government start around $36,000 per year range, while industry pays a bit more in the miid $40,000 per year range. **
 * Education: Most of these occupations require a four - year bachelor's degree, but some do not.



CHEMIST, WATER PURIFICATION." Career Planner. [].
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