- Captation:
- Treatment:
- Lifting/Transfer:
- Storage:
- Distribution:
- Consumption:
Ensuring water quality involves a multi-stage process:
Extraction of surface or groundwater.
Correction of physical, chemical, and microbiological characteristics to make it safe for consumption.
Conveyance of treated water through pipes to reservoirs.
Accomplished in surface or elevated reservoirs. From this point, water for consumption will be injected into the distribution network through pressurization or gravity-fed.
Dispensing water to consumers through a distribution network.
Utilization of treated water by consumers.
