Taste‐and‐Odor Control: The Nose Still Knows Best. Issue 8 (1st August 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Burlingame, Gary A.; Dietrich, Andrea M.
• Is Part Of: Opflow. Volume 41:Issue 8(2015)
• Page Start: 18
• Page End: 20
• Publication Date: 2015-08-01
• Subjects: Taste -- Monitoring -- Water Quality -- Odor -- Public Opinion; Water-supply -- Periodicals; Water-supply -- United States -- Periodicals; Water-supply engineering -- Periodicals; Water-supply engineering -- United States -- Periodicals; 363.61
• DOI: 10.5991/OPF.2015.41.0047
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0149-8029

Abstract

Abstract : Early days of determining water quality involved imprecise sight, smell, and taste assessments. Significant strides have been made with analytical methods in the past several decades to categorize and understand water's sensory characteristics for selecting treatment methods, controlling sources, and focusing monitoring. No matter how far we've come, though, water consumers remain the final judges of quality.