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Microbes Continue to Be a Detection Challenge
Author(s) -
Hoffman Rebecca,
Marshall Marilyn
Publication year - 2004
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.1551-8833.2004.tb10674.x
Subject(s) - identification (biology) , waterborne diseases , quality assurance , risk analysis (engineering) , environmental planning , water quality , microbiology and biotechnology , business , biology , engineering , environmental science , ecology , operations management , external quality assessment
This article discusses how microbial contaminants in water, even with greater research efforts and improvements in technology, still remain a critical issue. The article explains that although significant advances have occurred in pathogen detection and in the control of waterborne disease over the past 90 years, waterborne disease has not been eradicated. Future challenges focus on the evolution of new technologies for identification and viability of organisms found in drinking water. Reliable occurrence data cannot be generated until methods‐development issues have been resolved and standard methods and quality assurance practices have been improved and implemented.