EnPrint ® Limited is responding to EU legislation that is driving a need for rapid, quantitative and accurate assessment of water quality - to ensure all water bodies achieve "good" ecological status by 2015 By using EnPrint's analysis to provide a distribution of certain species or species groups, the analyst is able to assess the quality of the sample and give some indication about the ecological status of the water body from which the sample was taken Based upon molecular fingerprinting methods, our service is capable of high sample throughput due to parallel sample analysis