Journal of Water and Health

Volume 1 Number 1
March 2003

Contents

1

Editorial

Joan Jofre

3

The potential for health risks from intrusion of contaminants into the distribution system from pressure transients

Mark W. LeChevallier, Richard W. Gullick, Mohammad R. Karim, Melinda Friedman and James E. Funk

15

A novel technology to improve drinking water quality: a microbiological evaluation of in-home flocculation and chlorination in rural Guatemala

Josefa M. Rangel, Beatriz Lopez, Maricruz Alvarez Mejia, Carlos Mendoza and Stephen Luby

23

Storm effects on regional beach water quality along the southern California shoreline

Rachel T. Noble, Stephen B. Weisberg, Molly K. Leecaster, Charles D. McGee, John H. Dorsey, Patricia Vainik and Victoria Orozco-Borbón

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Fate of effluent organic matter during soil aquifer treatment: biodegradability, chlorine reactivity and genotoxicity

David M. Quanrud, Robert G. Arnold, Kevin E. Lansey, Carmen Begay, Wendell Ela and A. Jay Gandolfi

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A large cholera outbreak in Kano City, Nigeria: the importance of hand washing with soap and the danger of street-vended water

Yvan Hutin, Stephen Luby and Christophe Paquet