ABSTRACT
In the United States of America, the public’s concern about drinking water safety has accelerated due to highly publicized outbreaks of waterborne diseases. Developing countries may find that packaged drinking water treatment technologies offer a low-cost and effective solution for their unique drinking water problems. Packaged drinking water treatment systems are equipment assembled in a factory, typically skid-mounted, transported to a site and requiring only minor plumbing and electrical hookup during installation. Components of drinking water treatment systems are manufactured equipment that treat or remove a contaminant during one phase of a drinking water treatment system, e.g., filtration of solids, on-site production of chemical disinfectant. The drinking water treatment technologies covered by the test plans in the protocols include filtration by membrane systems such as microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, and reverse osmosis, electrodialysis, and reverse osmosis, filtration by nonmembrane processes, ion exchange, adsorption, and biological removal.
