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SUBMITTER: Nriagu J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5974232 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nriagu Jerome J Xi Chuanwu C Siddique Azhar A Vincent Annette A Shomar Basem B
Scientific reports 20180529 1
Deteriorating water quality from aging infrastructure, growing threat of pollution from industrialization and urbanization, and increasing awareness about waterborne diseases are among the factors driving the surge in worldwide use of point-of-entry (POE) and point-of-use (POU) filters. Any adverse influence of such consumer point-of-use systems on quality of water at the tap remains poorly understood, however. We determined the chemical and microbiological changes in municipal water from the po ...[more]