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. 1986 Nov;69:3–6. doi: 10.1289/ehp.86693

Water disinfection: microbes versus molecules—an introduction of issues

John R Fowle III, Frederick C Kopfler
PMCID: PMC1474308  PMID: 3545806

Abstract

“Water is, apart from the air one breathes, the only nutrient which is, as a matter of necessity, consumed by every human being from the first day to the last day of his existence, and it is consumed in considerably larger quantities than any other nutritional substance.”(1)

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