New drinking water hazard

Arsenic Occurrence in New Hampshire Drinking Water

Arsenic concentrations were measured in 992 drinking water samples collected from New Hampshire households using online hydride generation ICP-MS. These randomly selected household water samples contain much less arsenic than those voluntarily submitted for analysis to the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES). Extrapolation of the voluntarily submitted sample set to all Ne...

Fluoride: A naturally-occurring health hazard in drinking-water resources of Northern Thailand.

In Northern Thailand, incidences of fluorosis resulting from the consumption of high-fluoride drinking-water have been documented. In this study, we mapped the high-fluoride endemic areas and described the relevant transport processes of fluoride in enriched waters in the provinces of Chiang Mai and Lamphun. Over one thousand surface and sub-surface water samples including a total of 995 collec...

Drinking water quality: new challenges for an old problem.

New Perspectives in Monitoring Drinking Water Microbial Quality

The safety of drinking water is evaluated by the results obtained from faecal indicators during the stipulated controls fixed by the legislation. However, drinking-water related illness outbreaks are still occurring worldwide. The failures that lead to these outbreaks are relatively common and typically involve preceding heavy rain and inadequate disinfection processes. The role that classical ...

Drinking water, ecology, and gastroenteritis in New Zealand

New Zealand has good quality drinking water derived from thousands of streams, rivers, lakes and aquifers fed by regular rainfalls ranging from 400 to 11 000 mm year". These waters are treated variously to provide over 80% of 3.6 million inhabitants with satisfactory drinking water. By international standards, New Zealand nevertheless has high incidence rates of potentially waterborne diseases ...