Monitoring source water for microbial contamination: Evaluation of water quality measures

Water Research

Volumn 41, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 3716-3728

  Plummer, Jeanine D ^a   Long, Sharon C ^b  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN STATE LABORATORY OF HYGIENE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifidobacteria; Coliphages; Microbial source tracking; Rhodococcus coprophilus; Water quality; Watershed

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; POTABLE WATER; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATERSHEDS;

BIFIDOBACTERIA; COLIPHAGES; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; RHODOCOCCUS COPROPHILUS;

WATER QUALITY;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; DRINKING WATER; INDICATOR; ORGANIC MATTER; SORBITOL;

CONTAMINATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; POTABLE WATER; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

GIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SURVEY; TRACKING; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; BIFIDOBACTERIACEAE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COLIPHAGE; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECAL COLIFORM; LAND USE; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOCOCCUS; SANITATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TURBIDITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHED; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

RHODOCOCCUS COPROPHILUS;

EID: 34547494236     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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