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Assessing Exposure & Health Consequences of Chemicals in Drinking Water

Assessing Exposure and Health Consequences of Chemicals in Drinking Water by Cristina Villanueva et al. Safe drinking water is essential for well-being. Although microbiological contamination remains the largest cause of water-related morbidity and mortality globally, chemicals in water supplies may also cause disease, and evidence of the human health consequences is limited or lacking for many of them.    

Chemical Contaminants in Drinking Water

Chemical Contaminants in Drinking Water by Julia R. Barrett Contaminants may occur naturally, or they may derive from human-related activities, such as industry, agriculture, and mining. Not only have the prevalence and uses of chemicals escalated in the last century, but the analytical techniques to detect them have become exquisitely sensitive. Consequently, it is possible to define vanishingly small levels of both well-studied…

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