Managing events and extremes in water supplies

Abstract -

MEWS The increasing frequency of hydro-climatic extreme events poses serious risks to the quality and quantity of drinking water stored in the surface water supplies upon which the majority of Europeans depend. Extreme precipitation can add large inputs of nutrients and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to a water supply, the effect of which depends on the load, the processing of materials and the time of transport to the location of water withdrawal. On the other hand, droughts and extreme lack of precipitation can both reduce water availability, and also water quality. In this case, the biogeochemical processes regulating materials already [...]

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