Advanced treatment capabilities enable cities to augment drinking water supplies with purified wastewater. This image shows treated water feeding into a microfiltration unit, part of the Orange County Groundwater Replenishment System.

BACKGROUND Recent public attention on drinking water supplies in the aftermath of waterborne infection outbreaks in Walkerton and North Battleford raises questions about safety. We analyzed information on waterborne outbreaks occurring between 1974 and 2001 in order to identify apparent trends, review the current status of monitoring and reporting, and gain a better understanding of the impact ...

BACKGROUND The occurrence of faecal pathogens in drinking water resources constitutes a threat to the supply of safe drinking water, even in industrialized nations. To efficiently assess and monitor the risk posed by these pathogens, sampling deserves careful design, based on preliminary knowledge on their distribution dynamics in water. For the protozoan pathogens Cryptosporidium and Giardia, ...

background: many radioactive compounds may be released into the environment and hence into the drinking water supplies due to the human activities. radionuclides can also enter the food chain if the contaminated water is used for drinking or irrigation purposes. objective: to estimate the annual effective dose of natural radioactive materials like 226ra and 40k in drinking water of wells in zan...

In a statewide survey of 856 Iowa municipal drinking water supplies in 1986-1987 the Rathbun rural water system was found to contain elevated levels of triazine herbicides. Rates of low birth weight, prematurity, and intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) in live singleton births during the period 1984-1990 by women living in 13 communities served by the Rathbun water system were compared to ot...

Waterborne illness related to the consumption of contaminated or inadequately treated water is a global public health concern. Although the magnitude of drinking water-related illnesses in developed countries is lower than that observed in developing regions of the world, drinking water is still responsible for a proportion of all cases of acute gastrointestinal illness (AGI) in Canada. The est...

A comparative study of the conditions that place and those in the adjoining are^ would show that the sectional incidence mottled enamel can be correlated with ^ occurrence of fluorides in the drinking wa , supplies. Thus, the analysis of the drinkjj1^ water supply of the afflicted persons shows ^ presence of 0.4 to 0.5 parts (per 100,000) fluorine, whereas the water supplies for the otn section...

In the semi-arid area of West Texas, drinking water is a precious commodity. Drinking water sources include water from Lake Meredith and groundwater from the Ogallala Aquifer. Water usage in this area includes farming and irrigation, municipal use or cooling water for electricity generation. As population continues to grow and water usage increases, especially during periods of drought, the ava...

This study in Iraq investigated the occurrence of Legionella. pneumophila in different drinking-water sources in Basra governorate as well as the susceptibility of isolates to several antibiotics. A total of 222 water samples were collected in 2008-2009: 49 samples from water purification plants (at entry points, from precipitation tanks, from filtration tanks and at exit points), 127 samples o...