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This article organizes disinfection history since the 1881 founding of AWWA into a construct of eight disinfection “revolutions”, events or series of events that changed the practice of disinfection in the United States. The article goes on to discuss how the revolutions transformed U.S. disinfection practices and gives a case study of how the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California switched from free chlorine to chloramines.
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