The purest water
there is.
18.2 MΩ·cm at 25 °C. Nothing in it but water, and even water's own ions barely carry a current.
It looks pure.
It isn't.
Some traces move the reading at once. The ones regulators now care about don't move it at all.
The reading holds still.
The water doesn't.
While it freezes, the thermometer stays at 0.0 °C as energy leaves unseen. Between lab samples, compliance has the same blind spot.
One discharge
touches everything.
The trace doesn't stay in the drop. It travels with every ripple: to the plant, the river, the next tap.
Make the latent
visible.
Calibrated estimates of what you can't measure online, between every lab sample.