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