Venturi system could be major breakthrough

In a follow-up to last month's "Fighting the waterborne menace" article (HEJ--March 2010), Dr. Tom Makin, directorate manager, medical microbiology, at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust, and Martin Pride, new business development, at Kemper U.K. & Ireland, examine how Legionella has become a significant potential issue in hospital water systems, and discuss a novel, venturi-based engineering system co-developed by Kemper and a German university, and recently successfully trialled at a Liverpool hospital, which ensures constant water circulation, significantly reducing the risk of both biofilm, and consequently Legionella, build-up.