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Sewage Pollution in Water Supply in Indore

More than 20% of sewage waste is dumped untreated into Indore's water supply, while 80% of it's sewers are under-utilized or blocked. Such conditions may increase exposure to microbial pathogens and compromise water potability. This article reports an environmental risk assessment of Indor...

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Autores principales: Tahir, Alifiya, Visaria, Aayush
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5868091/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29618916
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijoem.IJOEM_150_17
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description More than 20% of sewage waste is dumped untreated into Indore's water supply, while 80% of it's sewers are under-utilized or blocked. Such conditions may increase exposure to microbial pathogens and compromise water potability. This article reports an environmental risk assessment of Indore's Khan River based on existing literature, including hazard identification, dose-response and exposure assessment, identification of susceptible populations, risk characterization, and potential community-oriented management and communication approaches.
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spelling pubmed-58680912018-04-04 Sewage Pollution in Water Supply in Indore Tahir, Alifiya Visaria, Aayush Indian J Occup Environ Med Case Report More than 20% of sewage waste is dumped untreated into Indore's water supply, while 80% of it's sewers are under-utilized or blocked. Such conditions may increase exposure to microbial pathogens and compromise water potability. This article reports an environmental risk assessment of Indore's Khan River based on existing literature, including hazard identification, dose-response and exposure assessment, identification of susceptible populations, risk characterization, and potential community-oriented management and communication approaches. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5868091/ /pubmed/29618916 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijoem.IJOEM_150_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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