Water Hygiene: What is Water Hygiene

Summary

The need for water hygiene is simple. It is to ensure that any quality of water when used appropriately is safe.

This can cover a wide range of uses from the obvious, that water for drinking is safe, through to understanding the risks associated with water and air conditioning systems.

Water Hygiene and Drinking Water

Within the water industry our chief concern is the quality of the drinking water that we provide our customers. While our specific responsibility ends at the stop tap at the edge of your property, we still want to be sure that the water coming from customers taps complies with the highest standards.

Our operatives are all trained to understand both the need for water hygiene and how to achieve it.

We would also like to be sure that people who work on drinking water systems, perhaps the plumber who works on the pipe that takes the water within your house to your kitchen tap also understands the needs and risks associated with water hygiene.

While water flowing through a pipe to some extent has a cleaning action in itself, that cannot be relied on and we still see instances in the press where people have suffered due to contaminated drinking water.

 

how did my son catch water bug1854  Cholera London 500+ deaths

1937 Typhoid Croydon 341 cases, 43 deaths 
1980 Gastroenteritis Bramham, Yorkshire 3000+ cases
1985 Giardiasis Bristol 108 cases
1993 Cryptosporidiosis Milwaukee 440,000 cases, 110 deaths
2000 E.coli O157 Walkerton, Canada 2300 cases, 7 deaths

 

 

 

 

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