Abstract
The presence of radionuclides in water constitute health risk to man, because the consumption of such water increases the likelihood of incurring cancer. Experimental analysis will enhance the detection of significant radionuclides that cause harm to the population and stimulate remediation. In our laboratory different procedures have been developed to measure natural radioactivity content of drinking water, from boreholes and wells, for routine monitoring, according to the Italian Legislation, D.Lgs. 28/2016. Liquid scintillation counting (LSC) was employed to measure the activity concentration of tritium, radon and gross alpha and beta; total alpha/beta counting, with the thick source method, was developed for the gross alpha and beta specific activity; emanometry, through the Rad7 + RAD H2O setup, was used to estimate the gas radon activity concentration.