A review of “Epidemiological Studies of Drinking-Water Turbidity in Relation to Acute Gastrointestinal Illness” has been published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
It is widely assumed that an important waterborne pathogen, Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157:H7, is shed from warm blooded animals and in some instances is transported to a drinking water treatment plant intake/source.
In my quest to find new and interesting topics in drinking water research this is the first study I’ve come across on dishwashers. No municipality that I’m aware of is responsible for appliances connected to distributed networks.
For those of you dealing with biological filtration for drinking water treatment, a paper entitled “Biodegradable organic matter and rapid-rate biofilter performance: A review” has just been published in the journal Water Research.
I occasionally come across papers that address the potential importance of fungi in drinking water. Many report that that fungi are surviving through treatment...
The Grand River and its tributaries in southern Ontario have been, and continue to be, very intensely studied. The latest published paper describes temporal trends in Giardia oocyst occurrence.
We’re now well aware that impacted watersheds used for drinking water can have high occurrence frequencies of protozoan pathogen (oo)cysts such as those of Giardia and Cryptosporidium. This includes the Grand River in southern Ontario where frequencies can approach 100%.
I occasionally come across papers that address the potential importance of fungi in drinking water. Many report that that fungi are surviving through treatment...
I always wondered how effective chlorination of wastewater effluent for the inactivation of viruses was (given the short proximity of some downstream drinking water treatment plants).
Finally a large scale study that confirms drinking water fluoridation prevents dental caries has been published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Unfortunately, it also confirms that those with better teeth had higher blood lead levels.