Bank filtration of rivers and lakes to improve the raw water quality for drinking water supply

Water Purification

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 137-169

  Gunkel, Günter ^a   Hoffmann, Anja ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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