Response to comment on "Household water treatment in poor populations: Is there enough evidence for scaling up now?"

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 5545-5546

  Schmidt, Wolf Peter ^a   Cairncross, Sandy ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

CHLORINATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CONTROL; LETTER; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 67650422204     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es901311c     Document Type: Letter

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