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Aircraft Potable Water Security

The filling water used in various landing sites is not always controlled, safe and sure. This leads to recurrent bacteriological and/or particles contaminations of the potable tank and potable water system by bacteria and/or particles. Bacteria like coliforms, pseudomonas aeruginosa can often been detected.

Two studies (water quality sampling of one or more galley water taps, water fountains and lavatory faucets) were done in 2004 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on domestic and international passenger aircrafts. The first one was done on 158 aircraft on 7 Airports locations. 12.7% of these aircraft were tested positive on coliform bacteria. The second study was done on 169 aircraft from 12 airports. EPA found that 17.2% of these aircraft (29 aircraft) were total-coliform-positive. Though EPA notes that of the aircraft sampled in the second round of sampling, 76.3% were US-based, the results for foreign-based or US-based aircraft were relatively close. Of the 40 foreign-based carriers sampled during this round, 17.5% (7 aircraft) were total-coliform-positive. By comparison, of the 129 US-based aircraft sampled during this round, 17.1% (22 aircraft) were total-coliform-positive.

It is no secret among all flying companies working party teams that it is very difficult to maintain a high quality of the potable water, especially in large aircraft on long ranges, or in aircraft which lands on third world areas, where the quality of the filling water is difficult to maintain.

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