I live in Bangkok and read how water comes to customers here:
I understand from the chart that water go through Thon Buri treatment plant (west Bangkok) and Mahasawat treatment plant (east Bangkok) before being pumped and transferred to the customer.
In the chart I clicked the links for these two treatment plants and read information in other parts of the site and understood water is treated at least either by chloride, fluoride and sulfate based chemicals but it wasn't clear to me if water is purified from bacteria by heating (boiling).
Does treated water in big cities get heated (boiled) to destroy bacteria as well as proteins, and if so, where does all the amino acid residue go to?
Answer
No. Heating usual water would be extraordinarily expensive. In all water treatment plant, all over the world, bacteria are destroyed by adding chlorine gaz Cl2 or similar substances delivering Cl2 when dissolved in water. The bacteria are killed by chlorine. So the customer drinks water containing dead bacteria. It does not hurt.
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