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Fifty Years of Progress in Water Purification, 1913–63
Author(s) -
Fair Gordon M.
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1963.tb01093.x
Subject(s) - portable water purification , coagulation , water treatment , filtration (mathematics) , resource (disambiguation) , environmental science , waste management , engineering , political science , forensic engineering , medicine , computer science , computer network , statistics , mathematics
This article discusses water purification over the last fifty years, 1913‐1963. The article presents notable events, the decline of waterborne disease, pioneering control studies, progress in chlorination, conventional treatment, coagulation, filtration, ion exchange and corrosion control, desalinization, prophylaxis, source and resource, and operations research.