Waterborne Viruses: A Barrier to Safe Drinking Water
نویسندگان
چکیده
1 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, 2 Safe Global Water Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, 3 Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, 4 Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, 5 College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
منابع مشابه
Incorporation of the Multiple Barrier Approach in drinking water risk assessment tools.
A number of existing risk assessment tools make reference to, or incorporate, a Multiple Barrier Approach to drinking water safety. Three waterborne disease outbreaks that occurred in developed nations were used as case studies to test a selected set of risk assessment tools. The outbreaks were used to determine how well the risk assessment tools identify hazards and vulnerabilities associated ...
متن کاملBalancing the chemical and microbial risks in the disinfection of drinking water supplies in developing countries
Developing countries of the world are alarmed by the focus of the developed countries upon disinfection by-products (DBPs) that are potentially harmful to human health, particularly those due to chlorination. In many economically disadvantaged countries chlorination is currently the only affordable barrier against the transmission of waterborne disease: their only choice is between microbiologi...
متن کاملDrinking water and health research: a look to the future in the United States and globally.
Drinking water supplies continue to be a major source of human disease and death globally because many of them remain unsafe and vulnerable. Greater efforts are needed to address the key issues and questions which influence the provision of safe drinking water. Efforts are needed to re-evaluate and set new and better priorities for drinking water research and practice. More stakeholders need to...
متن کاملIncreased information on waterborne outbreaks through efficient notification system enforces actions towards safe drinking water.
In 1997, a compulsory notification system for waterborne outbreaks was introduced in Finland. The main aim of this notification is to obtain immediate information on suspected waterborne outbreaks in order to restrict and manage the outbreak promptly. During the past ten years, there have been 67 waterborne outbreaks in Finland, mainly associated with small groundwater supplies or private wells...
متن کاملتعیین میزان آلودگی کلیفرم مدفوعی منابع آب برخی روستاهای شهرستان ساری با تست MPN
Background and purpose: Safe drinking is water that does not have any chemical and microbial contamination. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline standards for drinking water total and fecal coliform the indicator of fecal contamination must not be detectable in any 100 ml samples. Pollution indicator bacteria such as coliforms and fecal coliforms were enumerated using a mu...
متن کامل