Accidental contamination or deliberate sabotage of drinking water supplies have been a growing
concern to the safety of public water industries. As a result, water supply was defined as critical
infrastructure by the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection in 1997. Since
the concern became a real threat after the September 11th terrorist attacks, water utilities have
been taking serious steps against the worst possible scenario. As a practical measure to reduce
the effect of potential terrorist attacks, the destruction of biological contaminants must be
securely achieved by adequate chlorination by either gas chlorine or alternative methods such as
on-site chlorine generation and enhanced UV technologies. Taking such precautionary acts will
be critical to safeguard the utilities as well as the safety of the general public. Comprehensive
monitoring of water quality should be facilitated because many sabotage attempts would never be
detected by routine analysis procedures. Choice of effective monitoring instrumentations to
detect the sudden change of water quality is also discussed in the paper. Includes 16 references, figures.
| Edition : | Vol. - No. |
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| Number of Pages : | 10 |
| Published : | 06/16/2002 |
