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Health Aspects of Uncovered Reservoirs
Author(s) -
Pluntze James C.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1975.tb02263.x
Subject(s) - typhoid fever , environmental planning , isolation (microbiology) , business , water quality , distribution (mathematics) , risk analysis (engineering) , engineering , water resource management , environmental science , environmental resource management , medicine , virology , ecology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Open distribution reservoirs are remnants of a bygone era. The water‐quality objective at the time many of them were built was prevention of typhoid fever, and adequate protection was isolation from city‐wide conflagrations. Open reservoirs do not fit in with today's attitudes, Standards, conditions, knowledge, or technology. Suggestions are made in the following, which pertain to this problem.