Climate change and dissolved organic carbon : impacts on drinking water supplies

The presence of natural dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in drinking water supplies is undesirable due to its reaction with chlorine during water treatment and the resulting formation of disinfection by-products (DBPs) (Rook, 1976). Some of these compounds, principally trihalomethanes (THMs), have dem...

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Main Author: Jones, Timothy Graham
Published: Bangor University 2006
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434893