Treatment stage associated changes in cellular and molecular microbial markers during the production of drinking water at the Vansjø water works
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2015-06-06Metadata
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Charnock, C., Otterholt, E., & Nordlie, A. L. (2015). Treatment stage associated changes in cellular and molecular microbial markers during the production of drinking water at the Vansjø water works. Water research, 81, 240-249. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2015.06.002Sammendrag
The production of a drinking water that meets current aesthetic, microbiological and chemical standards,generally requires a combination of mechanical purification and disinfection in a multi-componenttreatment chain. Treatment choices and optimisation of water processing is best informed by usingmarkers (including microbiological parameters) which indicate how each stage contributes to the pro-duction of the potable water. The present study combines culture-based and a number of culture-independent analyses to indicate what is happening at each stage of a state-of-the-art water treat-ment chain at Vansjø near the city of Moss in Norway. We show that particularly clarification withflotation and post-chlorination have profound and positive effects on water quality with respect to theremoval and inactivation of microbes. Post-chlorination achieved better disinfection of the water thanUV-treatment and was of paramount importance, as the penultimate stepfiltration through granularactivated shed microbes to the water. Cloning and sequencing showed that some clones present in theraw water were detected at all stages in the treatment process, perhaps providing examples of microbesbreaching physically all barriers in the treatment process. Results from the study should be useful in theimprovement and maintenance of the treatment process at the Vansjø plant and others.