A method of anticipating a microorganism caused problem in a water process system, the method comprising: measuring the overall microorganism population in at least a portion of the system; measuring the amount of at least one subgroup of microorganism population relative to the overall microorganism population; determining if the amount of at least one subgroup of microorganisms exceeds a threshold, the threshold being at least one of a pre-determined: absolute amount of the subgroup of microorganisms, a relative amount of the subgroup of microorganisms, and any combination thereof; wherein the process further comprises identifying an input source that is the cause of the at least one subgroup of microorganism population, and further comprising identifying the water source the subgroup of microorganisms comes from and enacting a bio-control procedure to remediate the presence of the at least one subgroup of microorganisms only subsequent to and no later than 1 week of the introduction of water from the water source the subgroup of microorganisms comes from; wherein the water process system comprises feed water from one source selected from the group consisting of: municipal water, tap water, pond water, sea water, lake water, filtered water, desalinated water, recirculated water, wastewater, distilled water, condensed boiler water, cooling water, and any combination thereof. measuring the overall microorganism population in at least a portion of the system; measuring the amount of at least one subgroup of microorganism population relative to the overall microorganism population; determining if the amount of at least one subgroup of microorganisms exceeds a threshold, the threshold being at least one of a pre-determined: absolute amount of the subgroup of microorganisms, a relative amount of the subgroup of microorganisms, and any combination thereof; wherein the process further comprises identifying an input source that is the cause of the at least one subgroup of microorganism population, and further comprising identifying the water source the subgroup of microorganisms comes from and enacting a bio-control procedure to remediate the presence of the at least one subgroup of microorganisms only subsequent to and no later than 1 week of the introduction of water from the water source the subgroup of microorganisms comes from; wherein the water process system comprises feed water from one source selected from the group consisting of: municipal water, tap water, pond water, sea water, lake water, filtered water, desalinated water, recirculated water, wastewater, distilled water, condensed boiler water, cooling water, and any combination thereof. absolute amount of the subgroup of microorganisms, a relative amount of the subgroup of microorganisms, and any combination thereof; wherein the process further comprises identifying an input source that is the cause of the at least one subgroup of microorganism population, and further comprising identifying the water source the subgroup of microorganisms comes from and enacting a bio-control procedure to remediate the presence of the at least one subgroup of microorganisms only subsequent to and no later than 1 week of the introduction of water from the water source the subgroup of microorganisms comes from; wherein the water process system comprises feed water from one source selected from the group consisting of: municipal water, tap water, pond water, sea water, lake water, filtered water, desalinated water, recirculated water, wastewater, distilled water, condensed boiler water, cooling water, and any combination thereof. <EOS>