Assessment of potential climate change impacts on peatland dissolved organic carbon release and drinking water treatment from laboratory experiments
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Tang, R, Clark, JM, Bond, T, Graham, N, Hughes, D and Freeman, C (2013) Assessment of potential climate change impacts on peatland dissolved organic carbon release and drinking water treatment from laboratory experiments Environmental Pollution, 173. pp. 270-277.
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Catchments draining peat soils provide the majority of drinking water in the UK. Over the past decades, concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) have increased in surface waters. Residual DOC can cause harmful carcinogenic disinfection by-products to form during water treatment processes. Increased frequency and severity of droughts combined with and increased temperatures expected as the climate changes, have potentials to change water quality. We used a novel approach to investigate links between climate change, DOC release and subsequent effects on drinking water treatment. We designed a climate manipulation experiment to simulate projected climate changes and monitored releases from peat soil and litter, then simulated coagulation used in water treatment. We showed that the ‘drought’ simulation was the dominant factor altering DOC release and affected the ability to remove DOC. Our results imply that future short-term drought events could have a greater impact than increased temperature on DOC treatability.
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| Subjects : | Civil Engineering | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date : | February 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Identification Number : | 10.1016/j.envpol.2012.09.022 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Copyright Disclaimer : | 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Uncontrolled Keywords : | Dissolved organic carbon, DOC, Drinking water treatment, Disinfection by-products, DBP, Climate change impacts, Peat, Water colour | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Depositing User : | Symplectic Elements | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Date Deposited : | 17 May 2017 13:57 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Modified : | 18 May 2017 12:54 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| URI: | http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/840980 |
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