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PASADENA, Calif. -- In the ongoing war against Cryptosporidium -- a drinking water pathogen that seemingly defies traditional means of disinfection -- water agencies, universities, and government officials have initiated a joint project to quantify and generally to understand water treatment strategies.
The effort to get a handle on the control of Cryptosporidium is being led by the Southern Nevada Water Authority in conjunction with the environmental consulting firm of Montgomery Watson, the Oregon Health Sciences University, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). So far, some 13 water agencies from throughout the nation have announced their participation in the project, which will produce a report sometime next year on water quality parameters which impact disinfection performance.
"Recently, a great deal of effort has focused on discerning effective treatment strategies to insure the continuous production of pathogen-free water," said E. Marco Aieta, senior vice president of Montgomery Watson. "Maintaining adequate disinfection practices will play an important role in these control strategies," added Aieta. Several important studies have demonstrated the efficiencies of various disinfectants for Cryptosporidium under controlled laboratory conditions, he added. These studies point to ozone and possibly a limited number of other disinfectants as effective choices.
"What is needed now is a way to translate ideal laboratory results into real world predesign criteria," noted Aieta.
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