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The capacity of Montreal Lake, SK to provide safe drinking water
Recent waterborne disease outbreaks in Canada have brought national awareness to drinking water safety. In particular, the long history of poor water quality plaguing First Nations communities has received substantial public attention. Despite several initiatives from the federal government and …
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Inactivation kinetics of coxsacieviurs B5 with free chlorine
The World Health Organization’s “Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality” has identified safe drinking water as essential to health and a human right. Disinfection by chlorination is commonly used for drinking water purification in the United States, but the chlorine dose required to inactivate …
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Inactivation of adenovirus serotype 41 with monochloramine
Waterborne pathogens remain a top concern in drinking water safety. Nealy 1,000 children die worldwide each day because of preventable diseases caused by a lack of safe water and sanitation. Human Adenovirus (HAdV) is a viral pathogen that persists in contaminated water and is commonly found to …
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Recommendations for at-risk water supplies in Capiz Province, Philippines : using water source and community assessments
… Philippines for expert advice to support its drinking water quality testing program. Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Senior Lecturer, Susan Murcott, recommended specific state-of-the-art test methods for quantification of E.coli in drinking water as well as the involvement of a …
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Oxidative Treatment of Emerging Micropollutants and Viral Pathogens by Potassium Permanganate and Ferrate: Kinetics and Mechanisms
Providing clean drinking water is a primary challenge of this century. The ubiquitous occurrence of pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs), including antibiotics, anticonvulsants, painkillers, estrogenic hormones, lipid regulators, beta-blockers, antihistamines, X-ray contrast media, etc., in …
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Using quantitative microbial risk assessment to determine if health risk warrants boil water advisories in Newfoundland and Labrador : time for a new approach
The effectiveness of Boil Water Advisories (BWAs) as a public health risk management tool is increasingly being questioned. Newfoundland and Labrador's zero-risk policy for issuing BWAs on public drinking water systems has resulted in over 210 active BWAs annually, the majority classified as …