How to Get Drinking Water from Surface Water

With decreasing groundwater reservoirs, alternative resources for drinking water become more and more important. Already today a tremendous amount of our tap water comes from surface water resources such as rivers and lakes. 

Before surface water reaches our taps it undergoes various process steps, drinking water pretreatment includes coagulation and flocculation before particles are settled down in a sedimentation basin. 

Coagulates alter electrical charges of particles so that they clump together and form bigger particles. Flocculants are added by gently agitating the water which will cause a collision of flocs to form heavier macro flocs. In the sedimentation basin, the macro flocs settle down to the tank bottom and are removed. By adding lamella clarifier modules – as provided by AET – the sedimentation process can be significantly improved. 

Watch the video tutorial on The Water Network HERE.

Read the complete article on this process in the link below.

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• Drinking Water Treatment
• Drinking Water Managment
• Drinking Water
• Surface-Groundwater Interaction
• Lamella clarifier
• tube settler