Environmental Science, Volume 2: Sensory Assessment of Water Quality presents the methods for sensory water quality assessment. This book discusses the various aspects of the problem of impaired taste and odor of water.

Organized into seven chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the significance attributed to sensory assessment of water quality. This text then examines the results obtained on sensory water quality assessment and on general water quality appraisal. Other chapters describe the 20 types of drinking water and consider the effects of the sensory water quality assessment factors on water consumption. This book discusses as well the types of chemical compounds present and their relation to water taste. The final chapter deals with the number of applications and recommendations to assess sensory water quality aspects at least weekly in the case of surface water supplies by making an inquiry among the consumers located in the area served.

This book is a valuable resource for chemists.

• Front Cover 2
• Sensory Assessment of Water Quality 5
• Copyright Page 6
• Table of Contents 9
• Preface 13
• Chapter 1. Introduction 17
  • 1.1 General aspects 17
  • 1.2 The nature of sensory assessment of water quality 18
  • 1.3 Perceptible substances in drinking water 27
  • 1.4 Outline of the work 32
• Chapter 2. Sensory assessment of drinidng water quality by tiie population of The Netherlands 35
  • 2.1 Introduction 35
  • 2.2 The inquiry 36
  • 2.3 Sensory assessment of tapwater quality and possible causes of quality impairment 39
  • 2.4 Aspects possibly affecting sensory water quality assessment 45