Underground Water Supply

Metagenome of the Siberian Underground Water Reservoir

We report on the metagenome of a deep subsurface aquifer in the Tomsk region of Russia, sampled via an oil exploration borehole drilled to a depth of 2.8 km. Methanogenic archaea were present in the water along with members of various bacterial phyla, including Firmicutes, Chloroflexi, Bacteroidetes, Ignavibacteriae, and uncultured candidate divisions.

Secure Water Supply

Previous to 9-11, it was assumed that a combination of small-scale bench testing plus dimensional analysis would be sufficient to model fate and transport of chemical and biological (CB) contaminants in water systems. Water security is a life safety issue. Water supply systems on military installations and forward facilities are vulnerable to both conventional, industrial and military CB agent ...

Rural Water Supply Network

A Hospital's Water Supply

consumption of water at the King Edward VII. Hospital, Cardiff, was carefully noted at the time by the hospital authorities, who were prepared to give reasons for the increased consumption, but delayed communicating with the Press until the Corporation had considered the proposal to increase their contribution to the hospital. Now that that has been dealt with, it is only fair to the hospital t...

Water Supply and Health

Arguments over the relative importance of increasing consumption ('quantity') versus improving water safety ('quality') have been taking place since at least the beginning of the first United Nations water decade (the 1980s). For those living distant from a water source, using only around 3‐4 litres per person per day, and often suffering from hygiene related disease, the logical priority is to...