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Table 6.

Top ten cited articles on water-related diseases (1980–2015) [6, 7, 9, 21–27]

Rank	Authors	Title	Year	Source title	Number of citations
1^st	Smith et al [26]	Contamination of drinking-water by arsenic in Bangladesh: A public health emergency	2000	Bulletin of the World Health Organization	919
2^nd	Smith et al [25]	Marked increase in bladder and lung cancer mortality in a region of northern Chile due to arsenic in drinking water	1998	American Journal of Epidemiology	495
3^rd	Curriero et al [22]	The association between extreme precipitation and waterborne disease outbreaks in the United States, 1948–1994	2001	American Journal of Public Health	425
4^th	Martyn et al [23]	Geographical relation between Alzheimer’s disease and aluminium in drinking water	1989	Lancet	403
5^th	Bowie et al [9]	Outbreak of toxoplasmosis associated with municipal drinking water	1997	Lancet	366
6^th	Cabelli et al [21]	Swimming-associated gastroenteritis and water quality	1982	American Journal of Epidemiology	279
7^th	Morales et al [6]	Risk of internal cancers from arsenic in drinking water	2000	Environmental Health Perspectives	278
8^th	Prüss [24]	Review of epidemiological studies on health effects from exposure to recreational water	1998	International Journal of Epidemiology	275
9^th	Ward et al [27]	Workgroup report: Drinking-water nitrate and health - Recent findings and research needs	2005	Environmental Health Perspectives	268
10^th	Waller et al [7]	Trihalomethanes in drinking water and spontaneous abortion	1998	Epidemiology	267