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The Turning Point
Author(s) -
Mannion John B.
Publication year - 1991
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.1551-8833.1991.tb07089.x
Subject(s) - procrastination , turning point , point (geometry) , service (business) , business , environmental ethics , engineering , psychology , marketing , social psychology , aesthetics , mathematics , art , philosophy , period (music) , geometry
Based on a text by Mark Twain that posits there is no single turning point in a person's life, but that we are all influenced by chains of circumstances, Mr. Mannion discusses regulations and the water industry. Current and coming regulations do not stem from the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974; the act itself was drawn up in response to a number of preceding events. Utilities cannot respond to the act with procrastination or timidity, but must learn more about microorganisms and how to treat them, more about the chemistry of disinfection byproducts, filtration, and organic contaminants and their removal. Then the industry must act and change the way it does things, contributing to a historic turning point in the field of public water service.