DESIGN SCHEME FOR WATER QUALITY MONITORING IN A DISTRIBUTION NETWORK

摘要

The ultimate goal of any water supply scheme is to provide safe and adequate drinking water to consumers. The water quality may get deteriorated in the distribution network and hence need monitoring However, it is neither feasible nor economical to monitor each and every node in distribution network. In this paper, a methodology based on the hydraulics of flow and the concept that if the water quality at a particular demand node is good, then the water quality at its upstream nodes is also good, is used to design a monitoring scheme for a water distribution network. The methodology has been illustrated using a real water distribution network for a part of the Manendragarh city water distribution network located in Koriya district of Chhattisgarh state in India. Depending on the resources available, one can decide the location of monitoring station in the distribution network.