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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 premise plumbing in public health risk.
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Drinking Water Distribution Systems: Assessing and Reducing Risks
Consensus Study Report
·2006
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 o...
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