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The Relationship Between Consumption of Drinking Water and Waste Water Quality in The Residential and Tourist Areas of Split (Southern Croatia)

The objective of the investigations in this paper was to assess the daily consumption of drinking water per person in the city of Split (Southern Croatia), in a residential area of the city (Blatine) during the spring and summer periods and to compare it with the consumed water quantity in a tourist area ( The Lav Hotel) for the same periods, during 2006. This analysis includes the characteristics of waste water and the comparison of the computed waste loads in g/person/day, in those two parts of the city, during the spring and summer periods. The waste water pollution load in the residential area, expressed by pollution load units, which are equivalent to pollution by one inhabitant was 1.9 units /person/day while the waste water pollution load in the tourist area was 4.6 units/guest/day. The pollution load in the waste water and its recipient produced by hotel gues ts is two times higher than the load produced by the inhabitants of the residential area. This means that the contribution of the tourist area to the funds to be invested in the construction of the Split treatment plants should be twice the contribution of the residential areas.

drinking water; water consumption; pollution load; residential area; tourist area; Split

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