Treatment of microbial contaminants in potable water supplies [electronic resource] : technologies and costs / by Jerrold J. Troyan, Sigurd P. Hansen : technologies and costs

Identifies the best technologies or other means that are generally available, taking costs into consideration, for inactivating or removing microbial contaminants from surface water and groundwater supplies of drinking water. More specifically, it discusses water treatment technologies to be used by community and non-community water systems in removing turbidity, Giardia, viruses, and bacteria.