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<p>Protecting and maintaining water distributions systems is crucial to ensuring high quality drinking water. Distribution systems—consisting of pipes, pumps, valves, storage tanks, reservoirs, meters, fittings, and other hydraulic appurtenances—carry drinking water from a centralized treatment plant or well supplies to consumers' taps. Spanning almost 1 million miles in the United States, distribution systems represent the vast majority of physical infrastructure for water supplies, and thus constitute the primary management challenge from both an operational and public health standpoint. Recent data on waterborne disease outbreaks suggest that distribution systems remain a source of contamination that has yet to be fully addressed. This report evaluates approaches for risk characterization and recent data, and it identifies a variety of strategies that could be considered to reduce the risks posed by water-quality deteriorating events in distribution systems. Particular attention is given to backflow events via cross connections, the potential for contamination of the distribution system during construction and repair activities, maintenance of storage facilities, and the role of

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Author
National Research Council; Division on Earth and Life Studies; Water Science and Technology Board; Committee on Public Water Supply Distribution Systems: Assessing and Reducing Risks
Publisher
Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press
Published
2006
Language
EN
ISBN
9781280742514
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Technology, Nature

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