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Article: WHO issues revised drinking water guidelines.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- October 13, 2004
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2004 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Ensuring drinking water is safe is a challenge in every part of the world, from water piped into people's homes, to rural wells and water provided to refugee camps in an emergency.
Contamination of drinking water is too often detected only after a health crisis, when people have fallen ill or died as a result of drinking unsafe water. The World Health Organization (WHO) has released new recommendations that will help pre-empt drinking water contamination.
WHO advises national and local drinking water regulators, and the enterprises and organizations that actually provide drinking water to 5 billion people ...