Soil, Water and Environmental Sustainability

New and Emerging Drinking Water Treatment Technologies

The development and implementation of water treatment technologies have been mostly driven by three primary factors: the discovery of new rarer contaminants, the promulgation of new water quality standards, and cost. In the past years, chemical clarification, granular media filtration, and chlorination were virtually the only treatment processes used in municipal water treatment. However, recently dramatic change in the water industry's approach to water treatment in which water utilities have started to seriously consider alternative treatment technologies to the traditional filtration/chlorination treatment approach.