When souring may be microbially driven, DNA testing provides deeper insight into the organisms and functional pathways involved.

This option helps identify whether souring risk is associated with sulfate reducing bacteria, sulfur oxidizing organisms, sulfate reducing archaea, or other microbial groups linked to hydrogen sulfide generation and treatment instability. It is especially useful when souring is persistent, treatment performance is inconsistent, or a more advanced root cause investigation is needed.

DNA diagnostics can help you:

• Identify specific microbial populations contributing to souring

• Understand functional microbial risk

• Detect hidden biological drivers before issues escalate

• Support more targeted treatment decisions

If microbial souring is suspected and treatment decisions need to be made, a kill study helps determine which biocide chemistry performs most effectively against the microbes present in your actual system.

Rather than relying on assumptions, lab curated brines or legacy treatment programs,  kill studies compare multiple candidate chemistries using your water sample and operating conditions.

This can help you:

• Validate the most effective chemistry

• Improve treatment performance

• Reduce chronic overdosing

• Lower unnecessary chemical spend

• Build a more defensible souring control strategy

Culture media testing is a reliable way to detect and estimate bacterial groups commonly associated with souring, especially sulfate reducing bacteria. This option is useful when:

• You want to validate microbial activity

• You are supporting an existing treatment program

• You need traditional bacterial monitoring data

• You are investigating ongoing souring concerns