Drinking-Water Quality and Issues Associated with Water Vending Machines in the City of Los Angeles

Journal of Environmental Health

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 25-31

  Schillinger, John ^a   Du Vall Knorr, Suzanne ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; DRINKING WATER;

DRINKING WATER;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; FECES; FUNGUS GROWTH; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH HAZARD; HETEROTROPHY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; TURBIDITY; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER STANDARD; WATER TEMPERATURE;

BEVERAGES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FOOD DISPENSERS, AUTOMATIC; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0345872256     PISSN: 00220892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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