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Better safe than sorry: towards appropriate water safety plans for urban self supply systems [PDF]
, 2009 Self Supply Systems (SSS) can be defined as privately owned household level water sources. The research focus is on urban self supply hand dug wells in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Self supply wells serve an estimated 45% of Abeokuta’s population.
Kilanko-Oluwasanya, Grace Olutope
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Microbiological safety of water [PDF]
British Medical Bulletin, 2000 Significant advances in water treatment over the last century have resulted in massive improvements in the microbiological safety of public drinking water supplies in the UK and the developed countries. Incidences of illness due to poor treatment or post-treatment contamination are rare, but when they occur tend to attract considerable media attention.
D J, Dawson, D P, Sartory
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, 2014 This newsletter features articles on water-related science, policy, and law. Distributed to state agency representatives, faculty, students and interested citizens, it aims to provide current information, statistics, news, and notices related to water ...
Virginia Water Resources Research Center
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Water safety plan implementation in East Africa: Motivations and barriers [PDF]
, 2013 Water safety plans (WSPs) are a comprehensive source-to-tap risk management approach that are recognized as the most effective way of ensuring drinking water safety.
Parker, Alison, Summerill, Corinna
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Do Water Safety Lessons Improve Water Safety Knowledge?
International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education, 2022 A person, usually a child or young adult, dies by drowning every 90 seconds around the planet. Most drowning prevention initiatives do not assess the efficacy of the intervention. In this study, thirteen- to fourteen-year-olds had their level of water safety knowledge (covering cold shock, rips and tides) assessed before, just after, and 3-6 months ...
Michael Tipton +3 more
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Engineering hydrology technologies to reduce threats from ice phenomena
Magazine of Civil Engineering, 2023 Introduction. The floods caused by ice phenomena are among the "three leaders" of dangerous hydrological phenomena that damage the economy and the environment in Russia. Methods. The methodological basis of the study was: passive experiment, analysis and
Kozlov Dmitry, Dzhumagulova Nazira
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Quantification and health risk assessment of nitrate in southern districts of Tehran, Iran
Water Reuse, 2022 Nitrate is a common contaminant of drinking water. Due to its adverse health effects, this study aimed to determine nitrate levels in six southern districts of Tehran. A total of 148 samples were taken from tap waters. In 84.46% (n = 125) of the samples,
Safa Kalteh +6 more
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Extrapolation of regionalization equations for long-term average flow [PDF]
Engenharia Agrícola, 2016 Knowledge about long-term average flow is essential for planning and managing water resources because it represents the potential water availability. One technique used to determine streamflow is regionalization, but because most gauge stations normally ...
Fernando F. Pruski +4 more
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The Safety of Water Disinfection [PDF]
Annual Review of Public Health, 1982 The use of gaseous chlorine in disinfecting municipal water supplies had enjoyed unquestioned acceptance for almost three quarters of a century, until 1975, when the National Organics Reconnaissance Survey (NORS) (1) revealed the presence of halogenated organic compounds resulting from chlorination in municipal supplies of 80 cities.
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One-Year Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 Virus in Natural and Drinking Water
Pathogens, 2022 Although the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been detected in wastewater from several countries, monitoring its presence in other water matrices is still limited. This study aimed to evaluate the presence of this virus in natural and drinking water over one year of
Daniel Salvador +3 more
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