A 2011 survey of Mexico City’s households revealed that families prefer alternative sources of drinking water instead of relying in the city’s quality supply services. These include the purchase of bottled water, installation of filtration devices, and other means of water purification. The demand for better water quality was tested by estimating the household’s willingness to pay (WTP), using ...

A simple and compact virus-adsorbing unit for efficiently concentrating human enteric viruses from 100 gallons (about 380 liters) or more of potable water is described.

invited to be the guest editor, and to oversee the refereeing process and subsequent selection of timely, relevant and high quality papers highlighting particularly novel aspects concerned with sustainability issues in environmental studies. Contributions that have a significant impact on solving public health problems were particularly encouraged. It follows that major public health issues, su...

Growing demands for potable water have strained water resources and increased interest in wastewater reclamation for potable reuse. This interest has brought increased attention to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) as emerging water contaminants. The effect of EDCs, and in particular natural steroid hormones, on humans is of heightened interest in the study of wastewater reuse in advanced l...

BACKGROUND The environmental sources of sporadic, community-acquired legionnaires' disease are largely unknown, and culturing of water sources after identification of a case is currently not recommended. We conducted a prospective study of sporadic cases of community-acquired legionnaires' disease to determine whether the environmental reservoirs could be identified. METHODS We cultured sampl...

Environmental Management and Health 9/4 [1998] 153–159 © MCB University Press [ISSN 0956-6163] Attempts to examine the principles which lead to the exploration procedures to obviate environmental and natural resource degradation. The present and future state of water resources in both developed and developing countries are inextricably linked to the general behaviour of the economy and politica...