How To Future-Proof Your Drinking Water Treatment Process

Changes in water composition, whether seasonal or due to unexpected events such as algal blooms, can render an effective drinking water treatment train suddenly inadequate. Similarly, there is the looming threat that any number of emerging contaminants of concern (ECCs) could become regulated and require a treatment plan beyond the scope of the existing system.

That’s why many water treatment plants (WTPs) are taking a belt-and-suspenders approach to ECCs and water quality events. By employing ozone and biologically active filtration (O3-BAF) as an additional barrier to existing systems, WTPs can gain new levels of flexibility in the range of contaminants that can be effectively treated while at the same time ensuring consistently higher quality drinking water, effectively future-proofing their treatment process.

As ECCs are studied, the U.S. EPA will inevitably add more to the list of substances controlled under the Safe Drinking Water Act. An O3-BAF system acts as an additional defense against such contaminants, ensuring that little or no adjustment is needed to the broader treatment process in order to stay in compliance.