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Tank Inspections Back Water Quality
Author(s) -
Clark Thomas F.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
opflow
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1551-8701
pISSN - 0149-8029
DOI - 10.5991/opf.2017.43.0043
Subject(s) - water quality , filtration (mathematics) , environmental science , storage tank , waste management , quality (philosophy) , water treatment , water tanks , water storage , environmental engineering , engineering , mathematics , mechanical engineering , ecology , philosophy , statistics , epistemology , inlet , biology
Disinfection and filtration technologies have advanced to the point where drinking water leaving a water treatment plant should always be microbiologically pure. But even high‐quality finished water can be compromised and the water made unsafe if it passes through a distribution system that includes poorly maintained water storage tanks.