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Health Effects of Waterborne Contaminants: A Focus on Emerging Concerns

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  • Samuel Dorevitch

    (Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA)

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One of the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations has been “To ensure environmental sustainability”, which includes the target of a 50% reduction by 2015 of “…the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation”. [...]

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  • Samuel Dorevitch, 2015. "Health Effects of Waterborne Contaminants: A Focus on Emerging Concerns," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 12(10), pages 1-3, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:12:y:2015:i:10:p:12886-12888:d:57141
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