Question

What significance does the case of Safe Water Standards and Monitoring of a Well Construction Program have regarding environmental and occupational public health? Explain your answer.

Answer 1

Domestic health and public hygiene is very important in maintaining individual's health. Since water is one of the prime source of infectious spread , additional maintenance is required.

The integrity of well managed distribution systems is one of the most important barriers that protect drinking-water from contamination. However, management of distribution systems often receives too little attention. Distribution systems can incorrectly be viewed as passive systems with the only requirement being to transport drinking-water from the outlets of treatment plants to consumers.

so the aim becomes to maintain safety by preventing contamination after treatment. It can be done by

• constructing systems with materials that will not leach hazardous chemicals into the drinking-water;

• maintaining integrity to prevent the entry of external contaminants;

• maintaining the supply of drinking-water to consumers; and

• maintaining conditions to minimize the growth of microbial pathogens (e.g. Legionella) and biofilms, scaling and accumulation of sediments.