Lead in drinking water as a public health challenge

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 154-155

  Zietz, Björn P ^a   Laß, Jessica ^a   Suchenwirth, Roland ^a   Dunkelberg, Hartmut ^b  

^a Governmental Institute of Public Health of Lower Saxony   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; LEAD; TAP WATER;

BUILDING MATERIAL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISINFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EUROPE; GERMANY; LEACHING; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

HUMANS; LEAD; PUBLIC HEALTH; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 77952189863     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1001979     Document Type: Note

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