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Recently, consumers are requiring not only safe drinking water but also good tasting water.Therefore many water authorities or utilities are using or considering advancedtreatment processes for meeting the requirement from consumers. K-water is a nation-widepublic company which runs many WTP and multi-purpose dams. As like other utilities,K-water has experienced some complaints from consumers, so it started using drinkingwater quality grading systems. Currently indices of this system consists of turbidity,taste/odor, chlorine residual, disinfection byproducts (DBPs), geosmin, 2-MIB, Al, Mn. And agreeability standardand Langelia Index have been monitored to be added to the grading system. After K-waterset up the agreeability guideline, the governmental organization called the Ministry ofEnvironment in Korea also made a good tasting water guideline in 2006. This paper describesthe drinking water quality grading system and agreeability guideline in K-water and the goodtasting guideline of the Ministry of Environment in Korea. Includes tables.

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Edition:

Vol. - No.

Published:

11/01/2006

Number of Pages:

4

File Size:

1 file , 320 KB