Provision of high-quality drinking water to consumers of agricultural water pipes

Abstract

Supplying consumers with drinking water whose quality indicators meet regulatory requirements is one of the most important tasks of the water supply industry. The problem of water supply in rural settlements is particularly acute, since more than 38% of rural water pipes, from which samples were taken for laboratory research, did not meet the requirements of the quality standard in terms of sanitary-chemical and microbiological indicators. At the same time, only a quarter of Ukrainian villages are provided with centralized water supply, and the rest of rural consumers still use water from individual water intakes, which in many cases are in an unsatisfactory sanitary and technical condition. On the example of the village of Velyka Oleksandrivka, Boryspil district, Kyiv region, where more than 6,000 people live, ways to solve the problem of providing consumers with drinking water of standard quality are shown. On the basis of laboratory analysis of the sample and studies of water supply facilities in this settlement, the causes of unsatisfactory water quality in the centralized agricultural water supply system were determined, the consequences of using such water were analyzed, and recommendations were developed to improve the situation. These recommendations refer to replacing the water supply network with corrosion-resistant polyethylene pipes; application of modern effective technologies for de-ironing groundwater using an aerator, bioreactor and contact-clarifying filter; automation of the joint operation of the water tower and the well pump.