Tracing dissolved organic carbon and trihalomethane formation potential between source water and finished drinking water at a lowland and an upland UK catchment

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 537, Issue , 2015, Pages 203-212

  Brooks, Emma ^a   Freeman, Christopher ^a   Gough, Rachel ^a   Holliman, Peter J ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catchment; Dissolved organic carbon; Drinking water; Trihalomethanes

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CHEMICAL WATER TREATMENT; DISSOLUTION; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; ORGANIC CARBON; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; TOXIC MATERIALS; WATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

COAGULATION FLOCCULATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FORMATION POTENTIAL; RESERVOIR WATER QUALITY; TEMPORAL FLUCTUATION; TRIHALOMETHANE FORMATION POTENTIAL; TRIHALOMETHANES; WATER TREATMENT WORKS;

POTABLE WATER;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; DRINKING WATER; ORGANIC CARBON; TRIHALOMETHANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CATCHMENT; COAGULATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DRINKING WATER; FLOCCULATION; HALOGENATED HYDROCARBON; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RESERVOIR; UPLAND REGION; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CHLORINATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LOW CATCHMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENTATION; UNITED KINGDOM; UPLAND CATCHMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; CHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES; WATER MANAGEMENT;

UNITED KINGDOM;

DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; TRIHALOMETHANES; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84941264672     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.08.017     Document Type: Article

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