نتایج جستجو برای: potable water quality

تعداد نتایج: 1255645  

2006
Dian Tanuwidjaja

In recent years, capital and operating costs of seawater desalination plants have decreased remarkably. However, production of potable water from seawater by reverse osmosis membrane desalination remains 2 to 3 times the cost of desalting brackish water, reclaiming wastewater, or importing fresh water even over long distances. In addition, rejection of boron by seawater RO membranes is generall...

Journal: :Annals of agricultural and environmental medicine : AAEM 2010
Jacek Sroka Angelina Wojcik-Fatla Jolanta Szymanska Jacek Dutkiewicz Violetta Zajac Jacek Zwolinski

A total of 254 humans and 489 domestic animals living on farms in the Lublin province (eastern Poland) were examined for the presence of antibodies against Toxoplasma gondii using, respectively, the ELFA and direct agglutination tests. In parallel, 182 samples of potable water, mostly from shallow household wells, were taken on farms and examined for the presence of T. gondii by microscopy and ...

2013
Benjamin J Silk Jennifer L Foltz Kompan Ngamsnga Ellen Brown Mary Grace Muñoz Lee M Hampton Kara Jacobs-Slifka Natalia A Kozak J Michael Underwood John Krick Tatiana Travis Olivia Farrow Barry S Fields David Blythe Lauri A Hicks

BACKGROUND During a Legionnaires' disease (LD) outbreak, combined epidemiological and environmental investigations were conducted to identify prevention recommendations for facilities where elderly residents live independently but have an increased risk of legionellosis. METHODS Survey responses (n = 143) were used to calculate attack rates and describe transmission routes by estimating relat...

Journal: :Applied and environmental microbiology 2008
Margaret M Williams Mitchell A Yakrus Matthew J Arduino Robert C Cooksey Christina B Crane Shailen N Banerjee Elizabeth D Hilborn Rodney M Donlan

Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) and rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) such as M. abscessus, M. mucogenicum, M. chelonae, and M. fortuitum, implicated in health care-associated infections, are often isolated from potable water supplies as part of the microbial flora. To understand factors that influence growth in their environmental source, clinical RGM and slowly growing MAC isolates were gr...

Journal: :International journal of environmental health research 2016
Laura Benneyworth Jonathan Gilligan John C Ayers Steven Goodbred Gregory George Amanda Carrico Md Rezaul Karim Farjana Akter David Fry Katherine Donato Bhumika Piya

National drinking water assessments for Bangladesh do not reflect local variability, or temporal differences. This paper reports on the findings of an interdisciplinary investigation of drinking water insecurity in a rural coastal south-western Bangladesh. Drinking water quality is assessed by comparison of locally measured concentrations to national levels and water quality criteria; resident'...

2017
Chittaranjan Ray

Abstract Water treatment technologies have evolved over the past few centuries to protect public health from pathogens and chemicals. As more than a billion people on this earth have no access to potable water that is free of pathogens, technologies that are cost effective and suitable for developing countries must be considered. Sustainable operation of these treatment processes taking into co...

Hossein Rahimi

There are many trends in making an ecological city all around the word, one of important cases in this approach is safe and health water. According by definitions, safe and potable water is water needed for conducting the activities of man. Potable water is the most important renewable sources and this resource plays important role for survival of most living organisms as well as man based on s...

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