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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Comparing Disinfection Options for Drinking Water Treatment [PDF]
, 2018 Drinking water treatment is essential to obtain a healthy source of water that can be distributed throughout a community. There are various methods to disinfect water, and all have trade-offs regarding public health and the environment.
Hidrovo, Alexandria
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سلامت و محیط, 2014 Background and Objectives:Chlorination is the most common method of water disinfection. Chlorine reaction with natural organic compounds nor removed completely during treatment process would result in forming disinfection byproducts.
Amir Hossein Mahvi +5 more
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Removal of Trihalomethanes from Water using Modified Montmorillonite
Acta Chimica Slovenica, 2020 Trihalomethanes (THMs) are formed during the water chlorination process through the reaction between chlorine and the organic materials. In this research, montmorillonite (MMT) and its modified form were used to remove the THMs from the water.
Majid Hamouni Haghighat +1 more
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Survey of Fluoride, Chlorine, Potassium, Sodium, and Trihalomethane contents in the drinking water of five major universities in Iran [PDF]
Journal of Advances in Environmental Health Research, 2018 Water quality directly influences individual and public health. Monitoring of water supplies and their sanitation is of paramount importance. The present study aimed to determine the concentrations of fluoride, chlorine, potassium, sodium, and ...
Amir Salari +2 more
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Relation between trihalomethane compounds and birth defects [PDF]
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2001 OBJECTIVESTo evaluate the risk of birth defects relative to exposure to specific trihalomethanes in public water supplies.METHODSA retrospective cohort study was conducted based on data from a population based perinatal database in Nova Scotia, Canada and from the results of routine water monitoring tests.
L, Dodds, W D, King
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Disinfection by-products and extractable organic compounds in South African tap water
The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2008 An important step in urban purification of drinking water is disinfection by e.g. chlorination where potential pathogenic micro-organisms in the water supply are killed.
Carien Nothnagel +4 more
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Understanding N-nitrosodimethylamine Formation in Water: Chloramine Chemistry, Kinetics, and A Proposed Reaction Pathway [PDF]
, 2017 The formation of N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) in drinking water systems is a concern because of its potential carcinogenicity and occurrence at toxicologically relevant levels.
Pham, Huong Thu
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The Water Isn’t Safe: The Dismal State of Texas Drinking Water Regulation [PDF]
, 2018 This project won first place in the 2018 Signature Course Information Literacy Award. The award recognizes exemplary student work that achieves the learning outcomes of the Signature Course information literacy requirement, that students will be able to ...
Nguyen, Grace
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Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society, 2004 The interactions of tropical aquatic fulvic acids (AFA) with chlorine and formation of trihalomethanes were characterized by fluorescence spectroscopy. The aquatic humic substances (AHS) were isolated from a dark-brown stream (located in a environmental ...
Carvalho Eduarda R. +4 more
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Effect of trihalomethane exposure on fetal development [PDF]
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2003 Aims:To examine the effect of trimester specific and pregnancy average total trihalomethane (TTHM) exposure on infant birth weight, low birth weight, and intrauterine growth retardation in term births, as well as gestational age and preterm delivery in all births.Methods:Cross sectional analysis of 56 513 singleton infants born to residents of ...
J M, Wright, J, Schwartz, D W, Dockery
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