Reconsidering 'appropriate technology': The effects of operating conditions on the bacterial removal performance of two household drinking-water filter systems

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Baumgartner, Jill ^a,b   Murcott, Susan ^c   Ezzati, Majid ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Developing country; Household water treatment and safe storage; Point of use water disinfection; Technology; Water filter

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISINFECTION; EFFLUENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUEL FILTERS; RISK MANAGEMENT; TECHNOLOGY;

APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES; BACTERIAL INDICATORS; ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; MICROBIOLOGICAL REMOVAL; OPERATING CONDITION; SAFE STORAGE; WATER DISINFECTIONS; WATER FILTERS;

WATER FILTRATION;

EID: 34547625216     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/2/2/024003     Document Type: Article

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