The filters in some water treatment plants have a biofilm of bacteria which degrades and removes cyanotoxins…
Water is disinfected to remove harmful microbes and pathogens such as cholera and typhoid…
This project developed analytical methods sensitive enough to detect the very low levels of compounds that leach out of old coal tar enamel-lined pipes, then catalogued the chemicals and the levels they were found at in a problematic pipeline…
It is prohibitively expensive and time-consuming to monitor drinking water by individually quantifying every possible polluting contaminant…
Blue-green algae are a nuisance, especially when they bloom and grow to high numbers in water storages and reservoirs…
Pathogenic microscopic organisms in source waters pose a risk to public health if water treatment plants do not remove them…