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Chlorine is added to water in an effort to kill of harmful microorganisms in the water.
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Why does tap water and pool water typically test positive for chlorine?
Chlorine is used as a disinfectant. It's added to the mains water supply to kill off any bacteria that the treatment plant missed. The same with the water in swimming pools - except it's in a higher concentration.
What type of water contains chlorine?
Any water which has had chlorine added to it. Swimming pools don't go out and buy chlorinated water from someone who has a lake full of the stuff, or anything like that. They use tap water, and add some chlorine. +++ Mains supply water is filtered then chlorinated at the treatment works, but to only about 2ppm. Swimming-pools work at 2 - 4ppm so more chlorine-donor is added to the pool.
What is used to remove solid impurities from the water supply?
chlorine
What element will replace chlorine?
As we all know, chlorine is used to treatment of potable water, swimming pool, etc for many years, but it produce by-products which is harmful. now we get a substitute of chlorine, Chloramine-T, a ideal disinfectant for water treatment. it can function in water treatment but produce much less by-products. as the time being, chloramine-T will replace chlorine.
How does chlorine work?
Chlorine works as a disinfectant in pools or water treatment facilities/plant. It kills all the pathogenic organisms in water or reduce them to levels that will not cause diseases. It is the most important step in water treatment.
What is added to drinking water?
All sorts of things are added to water, from whiskey to orange juice. If you mean added by the public water supply company, the common ones are chlorine to kill bacteria and fluoride to reduce tooth decay.
Does chlorine cause cholera?
Chlorine does not cause cholera. You may get cholera, by absence of that little chlorine in public water supply.
Why does tap water and pool water typically test positive for chlorine?
Chlorine is used as a disinfectant. It's added to the mains water supply to kill off any bacteria that the treatment plant missed. The same with the water in swimming pools - except it's in a higher concentration.
What type of water contains chlorine?
Any water which has had chlorine added to it. Swimming pools don't go out and buy chlorinated water from someone who has a lake full of the stuff, or anything like that. They use tap water, and add some chlorine. +++ Mains supply water is filtered then chlorinated at the treatment works, but to only about 2ppm. Swimming-pools work at 2 - 4ppm so more chlorine-donor is added to the pool.
What is used to remove solid impurities from the water supply?
chlorine
What has chlorine in it?
bleach,weed killer and waste water treatment
What element will replace chlorine?
As we all know, chlorine is used to treatment of potable water, swimming pool, etc for many years, but it produce by-products which is harmful. now we get a substitute of chlorine, Chloramine-T, a ideal disinfectant for water treatment. it can function in water treatment but produce much less by-products. as the time being, chloramine-T will replace chlorine.
How does chlorine work?
Chlorine works as a disinfectant in pools or water treatment facilities/plant. It kills all the pathogenic organisms in water or reduce them to levels that will not cause diseases. It is the most important step in water treatment.
Chlorine is used to kill bacteria in the water at treatment plants. This chlorine can be harmful to some aquatic species. Based on this information what other step must be taken in the treatment of w?
The chlorine must be removed before the water is released into the ocean
What is an effective to chlorine for disinfecting waste water in a municipal treatment plant?
Chlorine gas is the most economical and effective disinfectant for drinking water.
What one following is not a step in the three-step water treatment process?
chlorine is added to the water
When did they start putting chlorine in tap water?
Chlorination has been used in America's drinking water supply as a defence against waterborne infectious diseases for about 90 years. The filtration and chlorination of drinking water are probably the most significant public health advances in history. one of the earliest uses of chlorine for water disinfection was done by John Snow in 1850, in disinfecting the Broad Street Pump water supply in London after an outbreak of cholera.
