Corrosion's Link to Legionella in Plumbing Systems: Causes and Prevention

摘要

When the city of Flint, Mich., switched its drinking water source in 2014 from Detroit to the nearby Flint River, its treatment plant did not sufficiently control the water's corrosiveness. As a result, those conditions made the drinking water ripe for Legionella bacteria growth and likely contributed to two outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease, according to a 2016 study by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech.