Sourcing, treating and distributing drinking water.
Water supply provides safe, adequate water from surface or groundwater sources via intake, treatment, storage, and distribution. Planning considers demand growth, yield, reliability and cost. Dams and reservoirs regulate supply; groundwater needs sustainable abstraction.
A city draws water from a river reservoir 30 km away.
Water supply systems deliver safe drinking water to communities, so their design protects public health and supports growth.
Sourcing, treating and distributing drinking water.
Water supply systems deliver safe drinking water to communities, so their design protects public health and supports growth.
Abstraction from a source, treatment to a drinking standard, storage, and distribution to consumers under sufficient pressure.
Quantity, quality, reliability, cost and the environmental effect of abstraction.
Typical applications include planning a new water source and treatment plant for a growing town, designing a supply main to serve a new housing estate and checking the quality of raw water before treatment.
Study "Culverts and drainage" first (topic 77 of 112 in Civil & Structural). It covers the groundwork this topic builds on.
Source selection. Per capita demand. Reservoir yield.
A city draws water from a river reservoir 30 km away.
The next topic is "Water treatment processes", which builds directly on this one.
It is classed as Advanced in Civil & Structural (topic 78 of 112). It is an advanced topic. It assumes you are comfortable with the intermediate topics in Civil & Structural.
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