Innovative approaches to managing and understanding taste and odour in drinking water systems

蓝藻引起的味道和气味(T/O)问题会改变消费者对产品安全的看法，导致许多投诉，管理和治疗成本飙升，以及巨大的经济损失，但对这些问题是如何产生的却知之甚少。 该项目将为澳大利亚水务行业提供成本效益高、敏感、具体、快速和实用的工具，以管理和了解T/O事件，并将使水产养殖和食品部门以及研究界受益。管理饮用水中的Geosmin的能力的提高，也将通过消除使用有环境争议的控制方法(如硫酸铜剂量)的需要，对澳大利亚环境产生积极影响。

Taste and odour (T/O) problems resulting from Cyanobacteria can change consumers' perception of product safety, resulting in many complaints, soaring management and treatment costs, and large financial losses, yet little is known about how they arise. This project will provide the Australian Water Industry with cost-effective, sensitive, specific, rapid and practical tools for managing and understanding T/O episodes, and will also benefit the aquaculture and food sectors, and the research community. An improved ability to manage geosmin in drinking water, will also have positive repercussions on the Australian environment, by eliminating the need to use environmentally controversial control methods such as copper sulphate dosing.