WEDC Guide No. 33: Membrane filtration

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posted on 2024-12-09, 15:30 authored by Brian Reed, Michael D. Smith, Rod ShawRod Shaw

Faecal matter is an indicator of many diseases that are transmitted by the faecal-oral route, so if faecal organisms are found in water we can assume that disease-causing organisms, commonly called ‘pathogens’, are also present. Membrane filtration is a means of testing the quality of water for faecal contamination and therefore a way of determining whether a water supply is safe, or whether the water needs treating before consumption. This guide presents an overview of the process.

Authors: Brian Reed, Michael Smith and Rod Shaw

Photography: Ken Chatterton

Illustrations: Rod Shaw

Designed and produced by WEDC Publications

History

School

Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Research Unit

Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)

Published in

WEDC Guide

Publisher

Version

VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2017

Notes

This guide was published by the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) at Loughborough University.

ISBN

9781911252115

Other identifier

WEDC_ID:22607

Language

en