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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Can bacteria in water make me sick? The transmission of disease through drinking water is one of the primary concerns for a safe water supply. Human illnesses such as typhoid, dysentery, chlorea, hepatitis, and giardiasis have been linked to drinking [...]

Concentration and Detection of Cryptosporidium Oocysts in Surface Water Samples by Method 1622 Using Ultrafiltration and Capsule Filtration

Otto D. Simmons III,1,* Mark D. Sobsey,1 Christopher D. Heaney,1 Frank W. Schaefer III,2 and Donna S. Francy3 School of Public Health, University of North CarolinaChapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7400,1 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio 45268,2 and U.S. Geological Survey, Columbus, Ohio 432293 The protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium parvum is known to occur [...]

Not Just a Drop in the Bucket: Expanding Access to Point-of-Use Water Treatment Systems

Eric Mintz, MD, MPH, Jamie Bartram, PhD, Peter Lochery, MSc(Eng) and Martin Wegelin, MSc Eric Mintz is with the Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga. Jamie Bartram is with Water, Sanitation, and Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Peter Lochery is with Water, [...]

Evaluation of Five Membrane Filtration Methods for Recovery of Cryptosporidium and Giardia Isolates from Water Samples

T. Wohlsen,1,2* J. Bates,1 B. Gray,1 and M. Katouli2 We evaluated the efficiency of five membrane filters for recovery of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts and Giardia lamblia cysts. These filters included the Pall Life Sciences Envirochek (EC) standard filtration and Envirochek high-volume (EC-HV) membrane filters, the Millipore flatbed membrane filter, the Sartorius flatbed membrane filter (SMF), [...]

Large community outbreak of cryptosporidiosis due to contamination of a filtered public water supply

EB Hayes, TD Matte, TR O’Brien, TW McKinley, GS Logsdon, JB Rose, BL Ungar, DM Word, PF Pinsky, ML Cummings, and et al. Between January 12 and February 7, 1987, an outbreak of gastroenteritis affected an estimated 13,000 people in a county of 64,900 residents in western Georgia. Cryptosporidium oocysts were identified in the stools [...]

The Protective Role of Ceramic Filters Against Natural Radioactivity of Water

T. Domanski, Y.Y.Y. Bakir, S. El-Zenki and H. Bem The paper presents results of measurements of the natural radioactivity of tap water where samples were taken in front of, and behind the ceramic filter commonly used in houses for the purification of tap water. Altogether, 289 samples were taken, processed and measured during 1985-1986 in [...]

Scientific Information

CSensitive and Rapid Detection of Viable Giardia Cysts and Cryptosporidium parvum Oocysts in Large-Volume Water Samples with Wound Fiberglass Cartridge Filters and Reverse Christine Kaucner and Timothy Stinear We recently described a reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) for detecting low numbers of viable Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts spiked into clarified environmental water concentrates. We have now modified the [...]

MARKETPLACE: Your Home >> Water

Home water filters: Which one’s best for you? Ever since water contaminated with E. coli killed seven people in Walkerton, Ontario earlier this year, Canadians have been paying more attention to the serious concerns with their tap water.So it’s no wonder that many people are looking for ways to make sure their water is safe [...]

MARKETPLACE: Home water filters

Which one’s best for you? Read this article courtesy of CBC News Broadcast: November 14, 2000 | Reporter/Producer: Ines Colabrese; Research: Mike Gordon Ever since water contaminated with E. coli killed seven people in Walkerton, Ontario earlier this year, Canadians have been paying more attention to the serious concerns with their tap water. So it’s [...]

Water and Sunlight Help to Clear Acne

by Rudy Silva If you want to help clear your acne, you need to drink more water and get more sunlight. Drink More Water The skin stores around 12% water. It is important to maintain this amount with the correct amount of good fat to keep your skin from getting acne. You need to drink [...]