Browsing Research Output by Subject "Drinking water"
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Access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and under 5 diarrhea morbidity in South Africa
(Medknow Publications, 2017)Background: Universal access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation are paramount sustainable development goals. This is critical for overcoming several health challenges in developing countries. This study analyzed ... -
Evaluating gas chromatography with a halogen-specific detector for the determination of disinfection by-products in drinking water
(Springer, 2019)The occurrence of disinfection by-products (DBPs) in drinking water has become an issue of concern during the past decades. The DBPs pose health risks and are suspected to cause various cancer forms, be genotoxic, and have ... -
Innovative drinking water treatment techniques reduce the disinfection-induced oxidative stress and genotoxic activity
(Elsevier, 2019)Disinfection of drinking water using chlorine can lead to the formation of genotoxic by-products when chlorine reacts with natural organic matter (NOM). A vast number of such disinfection by-products (DBPs) have been ... -
Physico-chemical and microbial analysis of selected borehole water in Mahikeng, South Africa
(MDPI, 2015)Groundwater is generally considered a “safe source” of drinking water because it is abstracted with low microbial load with little need for treatment before drinking. However, groundwater resources are commonly vulnerable ...