Online drinking water quality monitoring: Review on available and emerging technologies

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1370-1421

  Banna, Muinul H ^a   Imran, Syed ^b   Francisque, Alex ^a   Najjaran, Homayoun ^a   Sadiq, Rehan ^a   Rodriguez, Manuel ^c   Hoorfar, Mina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Aquastructure Solutions Inc   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conductivity; pH; water quality monitoring sensors

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; PH; SENSORS; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; WATER QUALITY;

DISTRIBUTED ARRAYS; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; MONITORING SENSORS; SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES; TREATMENT PLANTS; WATER QUALITY MONITORING; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS;

TECHNOLOGY;

CHLORINE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DRINKING WATER;

CONDUCTANCE; FIBER OPTICS; HYDROGEL; INTERFEROMETRY; ONLINE MONITORING; ONLINE SYSTEM; PH; REVIEW; SENSOR; TECHNOLOGY; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84901341282     PISSN: 10643389     EISSN: 15476537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10643389.2013.781936     Document Type: Review

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