Water monitoring and treatment for drinking purposes in 2004 tsunami affected area—Ban Nam Khem, Phang Nga, Thailand
| Autor: | Carlo Collivignarelli, Veronica Di Bella, Ruchaneekorn Mingkwan, Mentore Vaccari, Prapin Tharnpoophasiam, Valentina De Felice |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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education.field_of_study
Geography Population Environmental engineering Tidal Waves General Medicine Management Monitoring Policy and Law Thailand Pollution Water Purification Disasters Water Supply Environmental science Water treatment Water quality Water pollution Natural disaster Water resource management education Reverse osmosis Surface water Groundwater Environmental Monitoring General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 147:191-198 |
| ISSN: | 1573-2959 0167-6369 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10661-007-0111-7 |
| Popis: | University of Brescia and Mahidol University of Bangkok developed a project in Phang Nga province (Thailand), the most damaged by 2004 tsunami. In particular, the study, performed between April and May 2006, dealt with the surface and ground water monitoring in Ban Nam Khem village and the experimental evaluation of possible drinking treatment alternatives. The monitoring highlighted that saline content in the tsunami affected area is decreasing but still very high (conductivity presented values up to 2,600 and 6,230 microS/cm in ground and surface water, respectively); hence, advanced and complicated processes such as reverse osmosis should be adopted to treat such water for drinking purposes. Waiting for ground water salinity to assume acceptable values, activities for the reduction of its organic and microbiological contamination will be started. However, it has to be underlined that the diffusion of drinking water to a greater part of population can be obtained only through the realization of new centralised treatment plants and the improvement of existing ones (serving at the moment about 20% of inhabitants). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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