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The Water We Drink : Water Quality and Its Effects on Health

The Water We Drink : Water Quality and Its Effects on Health Paperback - 1999

by William Eley; Winkler G. Weinberg; Joshua Barzilay

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In this consumer's guide to drinking water, three experts on the subject present a review of the history of water, disease, and sanitation, and provide understandable lists of contaminants found in drinking water, both regulated and unregulated by law, as well as the sodium and mineral content used in most bottled water.

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Rutgers University Press, 1999. Paperback. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title The Water We Drink : Water Quality and Its Effects on Health
  • Author William Eley; Winkler G. Weinberg; Joshua Barzilay
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rutgers University Press
  • Date 1999
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0813526736I5N10
  • ISBN 9780813526737 / 0813526736
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.51 x 0.58 in (21.59 x 14.00 x 1.47 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Drinking water - Health aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-55318
  • Dewey Decimal Code 613.2

First line

The concept that there is a connection between water quality, sanitation, and the presence of disease was known in biblical and classical times.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 05/15/1999, Page 1654
  • Ingram Advance, 06/01/1999, Page 60
  • Library Journal, 05/01/1999, Page 0

About the author

DR. JOSHUA I. BARZILAY is in the division of endocrinology of the Southeast Permanente Medical Group and a faculty member at the Emory University School of Medicine.

DR. WINKLER G. WEINBERG is chief of infectious diseases for the Southeast Permanente Medical Group and the author of No Germs Allowed! How to Avoid Infectious Diseases at Home and on the Road (Rutgers University Press).

DR. J. WILLIAM ELEY is an associate professor at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University.