Comment on "Point of use household drinking water filtration: a practical, effective solution for providing sustained access to safe drinking water in the developing world".
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Environmental Science & Technology is published by the American Chemical Society. 1155 Sixteenth Street N.W., Washington, DC 20036 Correspondence/Rebuttal Comment on “Point of Use Household Drinking Water Filtration: A Practical, Effective Solution for Providing Sustained Access to Safe Drinking Water in the Developing World” Daniele Lantagne, Regula Meierhofer, Greg Allgood, K. G. McGuigan, and Robert Quick Environ. Sci. Technol., 2009, 43 (3), 968-969• DOI: 10.1021/es802252c • Publication Date (Web): 22 December 2008 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on March 4, 2009
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Point of use household drinking water filtration: A practical, effective solution for providing sustained access to safe drinking water in the developing world.
The lack of safe water creates a tremendous burden of diarrheal disease and other debilitating, life-threatening illnesses for people in the developing world. Point-of-use (POU) water treatment technology has emerged as an approach that empowers people and communities without access to safe water to improve water quality by treating it in the home. Several POU technologies are available, but, e...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Environmental science & technology
دوره 43 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009