A potential approach for monitoring drinking water quality from groundwater systems using organic matter fluorescence as an early warning for contamination events

Water Research

Volumn 45, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 6030-6038

  Stedmon, Colin A ^a,b   Seredyńska Sobecka, Bozena ^b   Boe Hansen, Rasmus ^c   Le Tallec, Nicolas ^b   Waul, Christopher K ^b   Arvin, Erik ^b  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Kruger AS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Contamination; Drinking; Fluorescence; Groundwater; Organic

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; POTABLE WATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

AMINO-ACIDS; CONTAMINATION EVENTS; DRINKING; DRINKING-WATER QUALITIES; EARLY WARNING; FLUORESCENCE CHARACTERISTICS; GROUNDWATER SYSTEM; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; ORGANIC MATTER FLUORESCENCES; ORGANICS;

FLUORESCENCE;

AMINO ACID; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; ORGANIC MATTER; WELL WATER;

AMINO ACID; DISINFECTION; DRINKING WATER; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; FLUORESCENCE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; LABORATORY METHOD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; ORGANIC MATTER; SAMPLING; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROMETRY; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; ORGANIC MATTER FLUORESCENCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WASTE WATER; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 80054035949     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2011.08.066     Document Type: Article

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