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 5542-5544

  Clasen, Thomas ^a   Bartram, Jamie ^b   Colford, John ^c   Luby, Stephen ^d   Quick, Robert ^e   Sobsey, Mark ^b  

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

^b IL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^e CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

DIARRHEA; HYGIENE; LETTER; SANITATION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DYSENTERY; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FECES; HUMANS; POVERTY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 67650456579     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es9008147     Document Type: Letter

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