A company that delivers food or beverages to humans, or other living things, or water to industrial processes must be concerned that the raw materials they use are invariant and safe. Raw material quality must be invariant to eliminate one variable in the production of predictably good products. Raw material quality must be demonstrably safe to prevail in the event of a lawsuit.
Water is the predominant constituent of beverages and foods.
There are only minimum allowable amounts of chemical contaminates. You may held liable for minute levels of health-threatening chemicals and biological infectents. Install a sediment prefilter and carbon particulate filtration system. Florite flowmeters are intelligent. They compare flowrates over a period of time to determine flowrate degradation.