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Published on: September 26, 2017
Advances in on-line drinking water quality monitoring and early warning systems
Michael V Storey1, Bram van der Gaag, Brendan P Burns
1Customer Strategy and Planning, Sydney Water, Parramatta, NSW, Australia. michael.storey@sydneywater.com.au
Abstract:
Significant advances have been made in recent years in technologies to monitor drinking water quality for source water protection, treatment operations, and distribution system management, in the event of accidental (or deliberate) contamination. Reports prepared through the Global Water Research Coalition (GWRC) and United States Environment Protection Agency (USEPA) agree that while many emerging technologies show promise, they are still some years from being deployed on a large scale. Further underpinning their viability is a need to interpret data in real time and implement a management strategy in response. This review presents the findings of an international study into the state of the art in this field. These results are based on visits to leading water utilities, research organisations and technology providers throughout Europe, the United States and Singapore involved in the development and deployment of on-line monitoring technology for the detection of contaminants in water.
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