Fact Sheet about Water Quality Surveillance and Response System
A Surveillance and Response System (SRS) provides a framework for enhancing distribution system monitoring capabilities to detect water quality issues and respond before they become problems. SRSs consist of one or more of these components:
- Online water quality monitoring
- Physical security monitoring
- Advanced Metering Infrastructure
- Customer Complaint Surveillance
- Public health surveillance
- Sampling and analysis, and
- Water Contamination Response (Consequent Management).
The SRS fact sheet provides a brief introduction to SRS practices for improving distribution system surveillance and response.