The role of nanotechnology in tackling global water challenges

MS Mauter, I Zucker, F Perreault, JR Werber… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Sustainable provision of safe, clean and adequate water supply is a global challenge. Water
treatment and desalination technologies remain chemically and energy intensive, ineffective …

Intermittent water supply: prevalence, practice, and microbial water quality

E Kumpel, KL Nelson - Environmental science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
Intermittent water supplies (IWS), in which water is provided through pipes for only limited
durations, serve at least 300 million people around the world. However, providing water …

Risk of waterborne illness via drinking water in the United States

KA Reynolds, KD Mena, CP Gerba - Reviews of environmental …, 2008 - Springer
The quality of drinking water in the United States is among the best in the world; however,
waterborne disease outbreaks continue to occur, and many more cases of endemic illness …

Evaluating the significance of highway network links under the flood damage: An accessibility approach

J Sohn - Transportation research part A: policy and practice, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper conducts an analysis to assess the significance of highway network links in
Maryland under flood damage. An accessibility index is derived to incorporate the distance …

Legionella and other opportunistic pathogens in full-scale chloraminated municipal drinking water distribution systems

C Zhang, I Struewing, JH Mistry, DG Wahman… - Water research, 2021 - Elsevier
Water-based opportunistic pathogens (OPs) are a leading cause of drinking-water-related
disease outbreaks, especially in developed countries such as the United States (US) …

Assessing the public health risk of microbial intrusion events in distribution systems: Conceptual model, available data, and challenges

MC Besner, M Prévost, S Regli - Water research, 2011 - Elsevier
Low and negative pressure events in drinking water distribution systems have the potential
to result in intrusion of pathogenic microorganisms if an external source of contamination is …

Microbial community dynamics of an urban drinking water distribution system subjected to phases of chloramination and chlorination treatments

C Hwang, F Ling, GL Andersen… - Applied and …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Water utilities in parts of the US control microbial regrowth in drinking water distribution
systems (DWDS) by alternating postdisinfection methods between chlorination and …

Managing water quality in premise plumbing: Subject matter experts' perspectives and a systematic review of guidance documents

R Singh, KA Hamilton, M Rasheduzzaman, Z Yang… - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Although many guidance documents have been developed to inform the design and
operation of building water systems to ensure safe water quality, there is a lack of consensus …

Review of modeling methodologies for managing water distribution security

EZ Berglund, JE Pesantez, A Rasekh… - Journal of water …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
Water distribution systems are vulnerable to hazards that threaten water delivery, water
quality, and physical and cybernetic infrastructure. Water utilities and managers are …

Seawater desalination based drinking water: Microbial characterization during distribution with and without residual chlorine

N Farhat, L Kim, K Mineta, M Alarawi, T Gojobori… - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
Monitoring the changes that occur to water during distribution is vital to ensure water safety.
In this study, the biological stability of reverse osmosis (RO) produced drinking water …