Water is disinfected to remove harmful microbes and pathogens such as cholera and typhoid…
Approximately 11% of Australians use rainwater as their main source of potable water but this poses a potential health risk caused by chemical contaminants or microbial pathogens from birds or mammals being washed off the roof…
This project developed analytical methods sensitive enough to detect the very low levels of compounds that leach out of old coal tar enamel-lined pipes, then catalogued the chemicals and the levels they were found at in a problematic pipeline…
Pathogenic microscopic organisms in source waters pose a risk to public health if water treatment plants do not remove them…
Cryptosporidium is a waterborne microscopic parasite with different forms at various stages of its lifecycle…