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Drinking Water Chlorination: A Practice Unrelated to Cancer Mortality
Author(s) -
Tuthill Robert W.,
Moore Gary S.
Publication year - 1980
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.1551-8833.1980.tb04586.x
Subject(s) - clinical practice , epidemiology , environmental health , medicine , cancer , preference , family medicine , economics , microeconomics
The practice of chlorination in preference to other methods of disinfection should not be phased out until there is stronger epidemiological and clinical evidence to support the charge that it produces serious health risks, and until the potential health effects of substitute disinfectants are carefully explored.