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The Old and the New: Bogotá's Water Plants
Author(s) -
Meier Gregory A.
Publication year - 1985
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.1551-8833.1985.tb05555.x
Subject(s) - potable water , filtration (mathematics) , water quality , water treatment , quality (philosophy) , geography , water resource management , environmental planning , environmental engineering , environmental science , ecology , biology , mathematics , philosophy , statistics , epistemology
Bogotá, Colombia, continues a tradition of maintaining quality water supplies. Contemporary treatment techniques provide highly desirable potable water to the residents of the city from a technologically sophisticated two‐year‐old filtration plant and a monumental 50‐year‐old treatment plant.