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Water quality in rural Australia
Author(s) -
Thurman R.,
Faulkner B.,
Veal D.,
Cramer G.,
Meiklejohn M.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of applied microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.889
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1365-2672
pISSN - 1364-5072
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2672.1998.00390.x
Subject(s) - turbidity , cryptosporidium , giardia , water quality , cryptosporidium parvum , giardia lamblia , environmental science , significant difference , veterinary medicine , hydrology (agriculture) , geography , environmental engineering , biology , ecology , microbiology and biotechnology , mathematics , feces , geology , statistics , medicine , geotechnical engineering
Grab samples of drinking water collected from reservoirs and from creeks flowing over pristine land, farmland or land having mixed use were analysed for their physicochemical and microbiological characteristics. A significant difference between sites for conductivity and sites for pH was noted using a two‐way anova . No significant interactions were detected between any of the other parameters: Giardia , Cryptosporidium , Escherichia coli , coliforms, plate count, turbidity or rainfall.