Abstract: Storage tanks and reservoirs are commonly used in drinking water distribution systems to equalize pumping requirements and operating pressures, and to provide emergency water for fire-fighting and pumping outages. Poor ...

Abstract: Red team–blue team exercises are methods of evaluating security by creating a “game” where one team (the red team) attempts to “attack” a target and the other team (the blue team) tries to defend it. This paper describes ...

Abstract: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed a geographically referenced data‐base system of the surface‐water features of the United States. This data‐base system is called the Reach File. It was designed ...

Abstract: The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) of 1974 requires that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) establish maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) for each contaminant which may have an adverse effect on the health of ...

Abstract: Interest is growing in determining the quality variations that exist in drinking water distribution systems. This paper is dedicated to understanding distribution‐system quality issues and to the development of a model ...

Abstract: Over the past 50 years, planning procedures and analytical methods for evaluating social and environmental effects have played an increasingly important role in federal water planning. Yet the impact of these procedures ...

Abstract: Many water utilities in the United States depend upon surface water as their primary source of drinking water. Toxic screening models can be used to provide a means for identifying and assessing the pollutants likely to ...