Monthly Archives: April 2019

How we make metrology stronger in southern Africa: Four quantities on tour

Events, Sub-Saharan AfricaStephen Virchow16 April 2019

A set of weights from 1 g to 500 g is only one of several metrological artefacts representing one of four quantities that will go on tour over the next few months. The round trip these artefacts will take through southern Africa to visit different countries and laboratories will be of a somewhat different kind.…

How dirty is the Ganges? This is how one of PTB’s projects wants to improve water quality monitoring

Asia, EventsPatrick Dolle14 April 2019

Together, we endeavour to underpin the monitoring of the Ganges’s water quality: We are happy to announce that the cooperation between PTB and National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) to strengthen the water monitoring of the Ganges River officially started in November 2018. After initial assessments of the situation at that time, a kick-off workshop…