Correlation between quality of drinking water sources and meteorological factors in 2013-2017, Haikou, South China

ABSTRACT

Objective:With the increasing attention to health influence by ecology environment and climate changes, it is important to explore the characters of drinking water quality and meteorological factors at tropical areas of South China. This study aims to study the water quality of municipal source water and to elucidate the relationship between water quality changes and climatic factors at Haikou.Methods:By analyzing the data of water quality indexes of source water in the past five years from July 2013 to April 2017, the representative indexes as following were analyzed: Fecal coliforms (FC), ammonia nitrogen (NH4Results:Only the CODConclusion:The source water has a higher concentration of iron. The temperature is an important factor that affects the local source water quality of Haikou. It is necessary to strengthen removing COD