Drinking water remediation organic compounds

A lake serving as a drinking water supply for a community is found to contain significant concentrations of a number of toxic organic compounds. Describe a remediation approach and identify and describe the principle on which this approach is based. 

Abstract In the last decade, it became increasingly evident that the fuel oxygenate methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) is nearly ubiquitous in the worldwide environment. The detection frequency of MTBE rivals other volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that have been produced and used for a much longer period of time. Its mere presence in water bodies used as drinking water reservoirs (rivers, lakes, or groundwater tables) has aroused concern about its potential sources, persistence, or possible adverse effects (aesthetic or toxic implications) for end-users and aquatic life. The purpose of this chapter is to provide an updated overview of the current environmental concentrations, the occurrence of the pollutant in the different aquatic compartments, the relevance of diffuse and point sources, and the different alternatives for remediation of MTBE contaminated sites. 

Water natural waters - oxygen and redox chemistry, acid/lDase chemistry and carbonate system drinking water - purification, disinfection, impact of chlorine groundwater - contaminants and remediation wastewater - phosphate, oxygen demand, fate of organic compounds, wastewater treatment (four lectures)... 

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