AWWA Trivia Night

What is the term that describes excess groundwater and stormwater flowing into sewer pipes?

What is the name of the most common meter type used to measure water consumption at a resident?

What is the process called to convert salt water from the ocean to drinking water?

Which is NOT one of the six categories of National Primary Drinking Water Regulations?

How do you calculate the specific capacity of a well?

Most common method of treating residential wastewater on-site if no community collection and treatment system?

What is the acceptable pH range for drinking water?

What was the main concern of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan?

What is the average strength of wastewater from residential homes used in design of wastewater treatment plants?

What type of aquifer usually recharges the quickest?

What are future drinking water regulations under consideration by USEPA and/or State of California?

What is the main concern of drinking water with nitrates?

What is the name of the endangered fish that has caused the State Water Project pumping to be restricted?

Which law provides funding for the cleanup of sites contaminated with hazardous substances?

Book by Marc Reisner that describes how major water systems in the west were developed by the US Bureau of Reclamation?

Common term for amount of treatment needed to provide virus inactivation/removal at surface water treatment plants?

Which three methods are used to disinfect both drinking water and wastewater?

What separates the Sacramento Regional WWTP from its neighbors?

Which is NOT a common beneficial use of treated wastewater?

What is the abbreviation for measuring turbidity in drinking water?

What is the first step in treating wastewater to remove large particulates at a typical wastewater treatment plant?

What is the typical treatment to remove iron and manganese from groundwater for drinking water?

What is typically considered the minimal average water use per person to provide adequate health and safety in USA?

Which is not an acceptable method to filter surface water to make it drinkable?

What is the name of the canal system used to transport water from northern CA to the central valley and southern CA?

What is the most common method to disinfect drinking water?

What organization establishes, monitors, and updates standards for equipment and additives used in water systems?

What does MCL stand for when it is used for drinking water standards?

What is the typical recommended farthest distance between gravity manholes?

What is the name of the "report card" that every public water system must complete every year to describe water quality?

Which are the beneficial uses of the UC Davis treated wastewater on campus?

What is the minimum distance a sewer main must be from a well?

Which low-impact development technique improves both infiltration and filtration of stormwater.

What is the minimum horizontal distance between a sewer main and water main parallel to each other?

If you have high organics in surface water, what is a method to predisinfect water to prevent disinfection byproducts?

Why are manholes round?

What is NOT one of the categories of secondary drinking water standards?

What does BOD stand for in wastewater treatment?

What are the sources of waters used by the City of Davis for drinking water and irrigation water?

What is the minimum vertical distance between a sewer main crossing under a water main?