Potential impacts of changing supply-water quality on drinking water distribution: A review

Water Research

Volumn 116, Issue , 2017, Pages 135-148

  Liu, Gang ^a,b   Zhang, Ya ^c   Knibbe, Willem Jan ^a   Feng, Cuijie ^b   Liu, Wentso ^c   Medema, Gertjan ^b,d   van der Meer, Walter ^a,e  

^a Oasen   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c United States of America   (United States)

^d KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Destabilization; Drinking water distribution; Evaluation framework; Transition effects; Water quality switching

Indexed keywords

BIOFILMS; DEPOSITS; POTABLE WATER; QUALITY CONTROL; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

DESTABILIZATION; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; DRINKING WATER DISTRIBUTION; EVALUATION FRAMEWORK; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION; TRANSITION EFFECTS; WATER PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES; WATER TREATMENT PROCESS;

WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

DRINKING WATER; TAP WATER;

BIOFILM; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; DRINKING WATER; LITERATURE REVIEW; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; PURIFICATION; STABILIZATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

BIOFILM; DETERIORATION; MICROBIAL GROWTH; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUBE; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

BIOFILMS; DRINKING WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 85015375330     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2017.03.031     Document Type: Review

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