title: A review of taste and odour events in Barcelona's drinking water area (1990-2004).
abstract: The main, relevant, solved problems associated with taste and odour incidents in Barcelona's drinking water area in the last 14 years are reviewed. Events produced by creosote, dioxanes and dioxolanes, dicylopentadiene, and diacetyl, among the anthropogenic compounds; geosmin, MIB and iodinated trihalomethanes and chlorobromoanisoles as examples of compounds of natural origin are exemplified. The determination of the odour threshold concentrations of selected odorous compounds is also shown as a tool to gain a better knowledge of future taste and odour events.
authors.affiliation: AGBAR, Aigues de Barcelona Avinguda Diagonal, 211, 08018-Barcelona, Spain. mboledav@agbar.es
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Boleda
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Díaz
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Martí
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Martín-Alonso
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Matia
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Romero
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ventura
mesh_terms: D002947:Cities; D003407:Creosote / Q000032:analysis; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods; D009284:Naphthols / Q000032:analysis; D009812:Odorants / Q000032:analysis; D013030:Spain; D013997:Time Factors; D014867:Water / Q000032:analysis*; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000032:analysis*; D014876:Water Pollution; D018508:Water Purification / Q000379:methods*; D014881:Water Supply
chemical_list: D009284:Naphthols; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; D014867:Water; D003407:Creosote; C001278:geosmin