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Water Age, Water Chemistry, And Microbial Populations In A Drinking Water Distribution System, Max Spehlmann

Theses and Dissertations

Microbes in tap water play a crucial role in pipe corrosion, human health, and water aesthetics. Because instances of tap water borne illnesses are on the rise in the USA, and many water distribution systems are reaching the end of their design lifespan, research leading to a better understanding of microbial growth and colonization is being actively pursued by many labs (EPA 2002; Miller et al. 2012). In the past decade, several studies have tracked the microbial community change of entire water distribution systems using high throughput sequencing technology (Ma et al. 2020; Perrin et al. 2019). System-scale community microbiology …