Safeguarding drinking water: use and quality of water, case study of Taranto province

In Italy the water collected is distributed through the aqueducts, composed by a collection and a treatment systems for the potabilization. Apulia belongs to the Southern Apennines District. This paper describes a research activity on the territory of the Taranto province to identify the water supply trough the analysis of the main sources, distribution channels and different endusers; to analyze the potential sources of drinking water pollution [1, 2, 3]; the monitoring of the main tanks of drinking water distribution in Taranto. It permit to identify the situation of Taranto drinking water and to evaluate new kind of source of water.