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

由蓝藻引起的味道和气味（T/O）问题可以改变消费者对产品安全的看法，导致许多投诉，飙升的管理和处理成本以及巨大的经济损失，但人们对它们是如何产生的知之甚少。 该项目将为澳大利亚水行业提供具有成本效益的，敏感的，具体的，快速和实用的工具，用于管理和了解T/O事件，并将使水产养殖和食品部门以及研究界受益。提高饮用水中土臭素的管理能力，也将对澳大利亚环境产生积极影响，因为不再需要使用有环境争议的控制方法，如硫酸铜投加。

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.