How do you like your tap water? : Safe drinking water may not need to contain a residual disinfectant

Science

Volumn 351, Issue 6276, 2016, Pages 912-914

  Rosario Ortiz, Fernando ^a,b   Rose, Joan ^c   Speight, Vanessa ^d   Von Gunten, Urs ^b,e   Schnoor, Jerald ^b,f  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

^f University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISINFECTANT AGENT; DRINKING WATER; TAP WATER;

CARCINOGEN; DISINFECTION; DRINKING WATER; GROUNDWATER; PATHOGEN; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT; WATERBORNE DISEASE;

EPIDEMIC; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROBIAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHI; SEDIMENTATION; UNITED STATES; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER BORNE DISEASE; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; ANALYSIS; CHILD; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; SAFETY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

FLINT; MICHIGAN; NETHERLANDS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; DISINFECTANTS; DRINKING WATER; HUMANS; SAFETY; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84959420414     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf0953     Document Type: Review

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