Arsenic

Arsenic exposure from drinking water and risk of premalignant skin lesions in Bangladesh : baseline results from the Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study.
Ahsan, H., Chen, Y., Parvez, F., Zablotska, L., Argos, M., Hussain, I., Momotaj, H., Levy, D., Cheng, Z., Slavkovich, V., van Geen, A., Howe, G.R. and Graziano, J.H. (2006) American Journal of Epidemiology, 163 (12); 1138-48.

Cytogenetic damage and genetic variants in the individuals susceptible to arsenic-induced cancer through drinking water.
Ghosh, P., Basu, A., Mahata, J., Basu, S., Sengupta, M., Das, J.K., Mukherjee, A., Sarkar, A.K., Mondal, L., Ray, K. and Giri, A.K. (2006) International Journal of Cancer, 118 (10); 2470-8.

Campylobacter

Investigating vomiting and/or bloody diarrhoea in Campylobacter jejuni infection.
Gillespie, I.A., O'Brien S, J., Frost, J.A., Tam, C., Tompkins, D., Neal, K.R., Syed, Q. and Farthing, M.J. (2006) Journal of Medical Microbiology, 55 (Pt 6); 741-6.

Disinfection by-products

Assessment of lifetime exposure to trihalomethanes through different routes.
Villanueva, C.M., Cantor, K.P., Grimalt, J.O., Castano-Vinyals, G., Malats, N., Silverman, D., Tardon, A., Garcia-Closas, R., Serra, C., Carrato, A., Rothman, N., Real, F.X., Dosemeci, M. and Kogevinas, M. (2006) Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 63 (4); 273-7.

Effects of indoor drinking water handling on trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids.
Levesque, S., Rodriguez, M.J., Serodes, J., Beaulieu, C. and Proulx, F. (2006) Water Research, 40 (2921-30.

Hardness

Calcium and magnesium in drinking water and risk of death from acute myocardial infarction in Taiwan.
Yang, C.Y., Chang, C.C., Tsai, S.S. and Chiu, H.F. (2006) Environmental Research, 101 (3); 407-11.

Indicator Organisms

Alternative indicators of fecal pollution: Relations with pathogens and conventional indicators, current methodologies for direct pathogen monitoring and future application perspectives.
Savichtcheva, O. and Okabe, S. (2006) Water Research, 40 (2463-76).

Metals

Daily intakes of copper, zinc and arsenic in drinking water by population of Shanghai, China .
Xu, P., Huang, S., Wang, Z. and Lagos , G. (2006) Science of the Total Environment, 362 (1-3); 50-5.

Microsporidia

Microsporidian species known to infect humans are present in aquatic birds: Implications for transmission via water?
Slodkowicz-Kowalska, A., Graczyk, T.K., Tamang, L., Jedrzejewski, S., Nowosad, A., Zduniak, P., Solarczyk, P., Girouard, A.S. and Majewska, A.C. (2006) Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 72 (7); 4540-4.

Nitrates

A review of nitrates in drinking water: maternal exposure and adverse reproductive and developmental outcomes.
Manassaram, D.M., Backer, L.C. and Moll, D.M. (2006) Environmental Health Perspectives, 114 (3); 320-7.

Perchlorate

Estimates of exposures to perchlorate from consumption of human milk, dairy milk, and water, and comparison to current reference dose.
Baier-Anderson, C., Blount, B.C., Lakind, J.S., Naiman, D.Q., Wilbur, S.B. and Tan, S. (2006) Journal of Toxicology & Environmental Health Part A, 69 (3-4); 319-30.

Development of a health-protective drinking water level for perchlorate.
Ting, D., Howd, R.A., Fan, A.M. and Alexeeff, G.V. (2006) Environmental Health Perspectives, 114 (6); 881-6.

Public Perception

Social perceptions of the impacts of Colombo water supply projects.
Biswas, A.K., Jayatilaka, R. and Tortajada, C. (2005) Ambio, 34 (8); 639-44.

Risk Assessment

Waterborne microbial risk assessment: a population-based dose-response function for Giardia spp. (E.MI.R.A study).
Zmirou-Navier, D., Gofti-Laroche, L. and Hartemann, P. (2006) BMC Public Health, 6: 122.

Uranium

Kidney toxicity of ingested uranium from drinking water.
Kurttio, P., Harmoinen, A., Saha, H., Salonen, L., Karpas, Z., Komulainen, H. and Auvinen, A. (2006) American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 47 (6); 972-82.

Viruses

Effect of adenovirus resistance on UV disinfection requirements: A report on the state of adenovirus science.
Yates, M.V., Malley, J., Rochelle, P. and Hoffman, R. (2006) J AWWA, 98 (6); 93-106.

The effect of coagulation with MF/UF membrane filtration for the removal of virus in drinking water.
Fiksdal, L. and Leiknes, T. (2006) Journal of Membrane Science, 279 (1-2); 364-71.

Detection and characterization of hepatitis A virus in water samples in Thailand .
Kittigul, L., Uthaisin, A., Ekchaloemkiet, S., Utrarachkij, F. and Luksamijarulkul, P. (2006) Journal of Applied Microbiology, 100 (6); 1318-23.

A large outbreak of hepatitis E among a displaced population in Darfur , Sudan , 2004: The role of water treatment methods.
Guthmann, J.-P., Klovstad, H., Boccia, D., Hamid, N., Pinoges, L., Nizou, J.-Y., Tatay, M., Diaz, F., Moran, A., Grais, R.F., Ciglenecki, I. , Nicand, E. and Guerin, P.J. (2006) Clinical Infectious Diseases, 42 (12); 1685-91.

Water Disinfection

Sodium dichloroisocyanurate (NaDCC) tablets as an alternative to sodium hypochlorite for the routine treatment of drinking water at the household level.
Clasen, T. and Edmondson, P. (2006) International Journal of Hygiene & Environmental Health, 209 (2); 173-81.

Water Quality

Coliphage as a potential indicator of distribution system integrity.
LeChevallier, M.W., Karim, M.R., Weihe, J., Rosen, J.S. and Sobrinho, J. (2006) J AWWA, 98 (7); 87-96.