Prem Parmar
Laboratory Director
Prem Parmar is the Laboratory Director for Orange County Water District’s (OCWD, District) Philip L. Anthony Water Quality Laboratory. He is responsible for managing the lab’s personnel and operations, overseeing a group of more than 30 highly trained professionals. Prem manages the lab’s strategic and advanced planning activities, compliance with federal and state laboratory requirements, and ensures that both the lab’s quality requirements and turnaround reporting times are reliably achieved. The lab is responsible for a wide range of testing, including compliance monitoring for local groundwater users and the District’s Groundwater Replenishment System recycled water project, as well as in support of the District’s overall groundwater management responsibilities.
Prem has more than 17 years of professional experience in environmental and analytical chemistry and has worked for the District since 2006 when he began as a Laboratory Intern while completing his undergraduate degree in Chemistry at University of California, Irvine. Prem also holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from California State University Fullerton.