Turn Up Water Heater Temperature to Prevent Legionella Growth in Home
If you look up articles about saving money around your home, you’ll more often than not find a tip instructing you to turn down the thermostat on your home’s water heater.
Legionella Does Not Grow in Low-TOC Water
A test system supplied with different types of warm drinking water without disinfectant under controlled hydraulic conditions showed that treated aerobic groundwater (0.3 mg C per liter of organic carbon) induced a low biofilm concentration that supported no or very limited growth of L. pneumophila.