The High Quality Drinking Water - 1392 Words

All of us need water; our body is made approximately of 60% of water. This liquid is so important for us that over the years the way in which it is delivered to the consumer had developed to increase the quality of the final product. In order to give to the consumer high quality drinking water, the distribution systems had to be developed to insure that the same water in which goes out of the water treatment plant is the water in which goes out of the consumer’s sink. Over the years some methods were studied to guaranty that the water consumed by the consumer not lose its quality over the distribution system, wasting the work of the water treatment plants. Among these processes, the conventional flushing obtained more attention due to its†¦show more content†¦A preliminary study of the current flushing operations of the utility along a complete framework of the operations before, during, and after the unidirectional flushing are necessary to achieve the best performance of this process. Different strategies can be taken in order to achieve the utility’s objective, such as decrease customer’s complaints, increase water quality, increase chlorine residual, or increase water pressure. The complexity of this process may require a specialized manpower to develop the flushing program, as well as a trained flushing crew, what can increase the total amount of money spent with the whole process. In result of the increase of money that may be spent with a unidirectional flushing program, analysis of cost and benefits need to be made, determining the best way to reach the objective, spending the smallest amount of money possible. However, to analyze the complete program is necessary take into account the quantifiable and the unquantifiable components, in which include since the amount of water spent until the taste and odor of water, associating real-dollar values to all of them. Together with the concern about the drinking water quality, the energy management has concerned the scientists. Since that a large amount of energy is spent by the water treatment plants, mainly pumping the water through the distribution system, efforts have been led in order to develop