Description: Water disinfection lessons from Europe
After decades of use in water systems, chlorine use in the Rotterdam, Netherlands water supply was found to produce carcinogenic disinfection byproducts in 1974. Since then, both European and North American nations have regulated chemical disinfectant byproducts to reduce overall exposure. These carcinogenic byproducts form in the presence of organics in delivered water, both at the point of...
PublisherWater Environment Federation
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Description: Water disinfection lessons from Europe
For systems with or without resi-duals, maintaining consistent quality across an entire network is a challenge that a centralized treatment facility alone cannot address. With the proposed EU additions of microbial monitoring at the point of dispense, the strategic use of microbial treatment across the network and down to the point of dispense is becoming more valued by regulators. To provide an...
PublisherWater Environment Federation
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Description: Water disinfection lessons from Europe
The EPA Safe Drinking Water Act already includes provisions for the use of barriers against contaminants down to the point of use, to achieve regulatory compliance. While the US works to navigate its water regu- lations on a national level, oper-ators, vendors, and suppliers can take charge and begin implementing barriers beyond centralized treat-ment and revised distribution systems to match new...
PublisherWater Environment Federation
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Description: Water disinfection lessons from Europe
James Peterson is the market development manager for the Americas at Klaran, headquartered in Green Island, New York, US.
PublisherWater Environment Federation
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Water disinfection lessons from Europe