Drinking water disinfection and formation of by-products

Abstract

In the paper an account of the contemporary ways of drinking water disinfection and of formation of disinfection by-products is presented. Various types of disinfection by-products with respect to applied water treatment technologies and connected to health risk are discussed. Many of these by-products are toxic and some of them are considered as carcinogenic and mutagenic for human organism. Elimination and regular monitoring of their content are necessary. Therefore technologies of removal of disinfection by-products and of their precursors are presented by the paper as well. The account is complemented equally by basic information about analytical methods applied.