In this project, the pharmacy information and international standards of drinking-water treatment chemicals were collected and updated for Taiwan EPA database. To complete the drinking water treatment chemicals management system in Taiwan, a third-party notarization inspection association was suggested to be build up. For the short term, the third-party notarization inspection association can help water supply companies to conduct occasional verification and audit work on the chemicals manufacturers. For the long term, we suggested the future of the Ministry of Environmental Protection after the establishment of the United States can refer to the NSF and JWWA third party fair management system, the establishment of third party impartial units to supervise the quality of pharmaceutical manufacturing and use. Another strategy suggested that the water utilities could produce and manage their own water purifying agents The information and international standards could be used to help EPA to control drinking-water treatment chemicals quality and usage. We got the information about the types and quantity of the chemicals in the water purification process. The information of companies that produced and sold the drinking water treatment chemicals was also collected, which can be used as reference to control chemicals produced processes. In addition, We collected the other countries’ related laws or regulations to establish and update the chemicals’ material safety data sheet. In this project, ‘public drinking fountain’ management systems in US, Japan, China and Taiwan were investigated. The results showed that different system management approaches were carried out in these countries. Furthermore, the ‘direct drinking fountain’ in Taipei city that similar to ‘public drinking fountain’ was further discussed. The results showed that the ‘drinking fountain’ was equipped with only continuous water supply but no continuous treatment capacity. To recommend referred to the United States and Japan’s management systems. The installation of UV or membrane filter at the public drinking water usage point should be implemented. In addition, the operation personnel certification for the ‘direct drinking fountain’ system is necessary to ensure equipment maintenance and water quality.

Drinking-water treatment chemicals, Drinking fountain