A case study of sanitary survey on community drinking water supplies after a severe (post-Tsunami) flooding event

Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanita

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 236-241

  Ferretti, Emanuele ^a   Bonadonna, Lucia ^a   Lucentini, Luca ^a   Della Libera, Simonetta ^a   Semproni, Maurizio ^a   Ottaviani, Massimo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Emergencies; Public health; Tsunami; Water microbiology; Water supply

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MICROBIOLOGY; SAFETY; SANITATION; SRI LANKA; STANDARD; TSUNAMI; WATER SUPPLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

DATA COLLECTION; SAFETY; SANITATION; SRI LANKA; TSUNAMIS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 78650737103     PISSN: 00212571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4415/ANN-10-03-03     Document Type: Article

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