In-Line Monitoring of Bacteria in Drinking Water By Infrared Spectroscopy and Micro-Flow Cytometry

Water from a municipal network water supply is stored in tanks and then pumped to tanks in tall buildings, which is so called “second water supply”. However, the water stored in tanks provides the potential environment for bacteria to grow and multiply. It is labor and time-consuming to routinely and frequently sample water from the water tanks distributed in a city, and to test all samples by biological methods in labs, which thus restricts …