L—litre
ML—megalitre
mg—milligram
m³—cubic metre
mm—millimetre
ha—hectare
µS/cm—microsiemens per centimetre
mS/cm—millisiemens per centimetre
dS/m—decisiemens per metre
Ct—Contact time
Industry best practice manual for water quality management and sterilisation on-farm
- About
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and definitions
- Introduction
- Water quality criteria
- Overview of water quality issues in Australian meat chicken farms
- Recommended monitoring frequencies and systems
- Source water management
- Pre-treatment systems
- Disinfection systems
- Water distribution system
- Water system maintenance
- Troubleshooting water quality problems
- Issue identification and possible causes
- Source water quality issues
- Pre-treatment issues
- Pre-treatment: general filter issues
- Pre-treatment: media filter issues
- Pre-treatment issues: reverse osmosis
- Disinfection and sanitisation
- Shed issues
- Shed issues: high water consumption
- Shed issues: ineffective microbial treatment
- Shed issues: high organic matter
- Shed issues: pH
- Shed issues: scale build-up
- Shed issues: biofilm build-up
- Operating procedures
- Examples of on-farm water quality testing kits and meters
- Examples of automated doses and meters
- Applicability of pre-treatments and disinfection techniques to different situations
- Common conversions and calculations
- References
