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Public Consultation Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality – Guideline Technical Document on Strontium
The deadlines for providing comments to Health Canada on their ‘Guidance document on the use of quantitative microbial risk assessment in drinking water’ and ‘Proposed guideline technical document on copper in drinking water’ documents have expired but a ‘Proposed guideline technical document on strontium in drinking water’ is now available for public comment at...
Identification, toxicity and control of iodinated disinfection byproducts in cooking with simulated chlor(am)inated tap water and iodized table salt
In an effort to avoid chlorinated disinfection byproduct (DBP) formation in distribution systems many drinking water utilities switched from free chlorine to chloramination.
Review of Epidemiological Studies of Drinking-Water Turbidity in Relation to Acute Gastrointestinal Illness
A review of “Epidemiological Studies of Drinking-Water Turbidity in Relation to Acute Gastrointestinal Illness” has been published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
Growth and Extended Survival of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Soil Organic Matter
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.
Microbial Diversity and Putative Opportunistic Pathogens in Dishwasher Biofilm Communities
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.
Three water myths debunked for World Water Day
Cape Town, South Africa faces a crisis that’s unimaginable to most Canadians: the city is running out of water. By July, 3.75 million people could see their taps run dry. Unless local desalination plants soon [...]
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Public Consultation Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality – Guideline Technical Document on Strontium
The deadlines for providing comments to Health Canada on their ‘Guidance document on the use of quantitative microbial risk assessment in drinking water’ and ‘Proposed guideline technical document on copper in drinking water’ documents have expired but a ‘Proposed guideline technical document on strontium in drinking water’ is now available for public comment at...
Identification, toxicity and control of iodinated disinfection byproducts in cooking with simulated chlor(am)inated tap water and iodized table salt
In an effort to avoid chlorinated disinfection byproduct (DBP) formation in distribution systems many drinking water utilities switched from free chlorine to chloramination.
Review of Epidemiological Studies of Drinking-Water Turbidity in Relation to Acute Gastrointestinal Illness
A review of “Epidemiological Studies of Drinking-Water Turbidity in Relation to Acute Gastrointestinal Illness” has been published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
Growth and Extended Survival of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Soil Organic Matter
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.
Microbial Diversity and Putative Opportunistic Pathogens in Dishwasher Biofilm Communities
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.
Three water myths debunked for World Water Day
Cape Town, South Africa faces a crisis that’s unimaginable to most Canadians: the city is running out of water. By July, 3.75 million people could see their taps run dry. Unless local desalination plants soon [...]