Pressure monitoring and characterization of external sources of contamination at the site of the payment drinking water epidemiological studies

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 269-277

  Besner, Marie Claude ^a   Broséus, Romain ^a   Lavoie, Jean ^b   Di Giovanni, George ^c   Payment, Pierre ^d   Prévost, Michele ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b City of Laval   (Canada)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INRS INSTITUT ARMAND FRAPPIER   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INDICATORS; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; DRINKING WATER; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; EXTERNAL SOURCES; FECAL CONTAMINATION; MONITORING PERIODS; NEGATIVE PRESSURES; PRESSURE MONITORING; PRESSURE VALUES; RIVER WATER; TAP WATER; TREATMENT PLANTS;

CONTAMINATION; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; WASTEWATER; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

POTABLE WATER;

DRINKING WATER; RIVER WATER;

DISEASE INCIDENCE; DRINKING WATER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH RISK; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLLUTANT SOURCE; PRESSURE FIELD; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BACTEROIDALES; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROVIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL QUALITY; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

BACTERIA; CANADA; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; PRESSURE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 75349103548     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es901988y     Document Type: Article

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