Issue 57
Public Health Newsletter of Water Quality Research Australia
March 2010
In this Issue:

Coomera Cross-Connection Incident
Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water Millenium Development Goals
News Items
From the Literature
  
Arsenic
  
Bottled Water
  
Dental Caries
  
Disinfection Byproducts
   HPC Bacteria
   Metals
  
Organotin
   Outbreaks
   Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)
   Pharmaceuticals

   POU Treatment
  
Uranium
   
Water Quality
   
Water Usage
 

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From the Literature

Arsenic


Arsenic in public water supplies and cardiovascular mortality in Spain.
Medrano MJ, Boix R, Pastor-Barriuso R. et al. Environmental Research, (2009) doi:10.1016/ j.envres.2009.10.002


Arsenic in drinking water and adult mortality: A population-based cohort study in rural Bangladesh.
Sohel, N., Persson, L.Ã., Rahman, M., Streatfield, P.K., Yunus, M., Ekstrom, E.C. and Vahter, M. (2009) Epidemiology, 20(6); 824-830.


Arsenic in drinking water and risk of urinary tract cancer: A follow-up study from Northeastern Taiwan.
Chen, C.L., Chiou, H.Y., Hsu, L.I., Hsueh, Y.M., Wu, M.M., Wang, Y.H. and Chen, C.J. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, 19 (1); 101-110.

Bottled Water

A battle against the bottles: Building, claiming, and regaining tap-water trustworthiness.
Parag, Y. and Timmons Roberts, J. (2009) Society and Natural Resources, 22(7); 625-636.

Dental Caries


Factors associated with inter-municipality differences in dental caries experience among Danish adolescents. An ecological study.
Ekstrand, K.R., Christiansen, M.E.C., Qvist, V. and Ismail, A. (2010) Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 38 (1); 29-42.

Disinfection Byproducts


The formation and control of emerging disinfection by-products of health concern.
Krasner, S.W. (2009) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 367 (1904); 4077-4095.


Chlorination disinfection by-products in drinking water and congenital anomalies: Review and meta-analyses.
Nieuwenhuijsen, M.J., Martinez , D., Grellier, J., Bennett, J., Best, N., Iszatt, N., Vrijheid, M. and Toledano, M.B. (2009) Environmental Health Perspectives, 117 (10); 1486-1493.

HPC Bacteria


Impact of chlorinated swimming pool attendance on the respiratory health of adolescents.
Bernard A, Nickmilder M, Voisin C and Sardella A. (2009) Pediatrics, 124 (4); 1110-1118.

Metals

Effects of elevated levels of manganese and iron in drinking water on birth outcomes.
Grazuleviciene, R., Nadisauskiene, R., Buinauskiene, J. and Grazulevicius, T. (2009) Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, 18 (5); 819-825.

 

Organotin

Using probabilistic modeling to evaluate human exposure to organotin in drinking water transported by polyvinyl chloride pipe.
Fristachi, A., Xu, Y., Rice, G., Impellitteri , C.A. , Carlson-Lynch, H. and Little, J.C. (2009) Risk Analysis, 29 (11); 1615-1628.

Outbreaks

Mixed viral infections causing acute gastroenteritis in children in a waterborne outbreak.
Rasanen, S., Lappalainen, S., Kaikkonen, S., Hamalainen, M., Salminen, M. and Vesikari, T. (2010) Epidemiology and Infection, 1-8. doi:10.1017/S0950268809991671


Waterborne gastroenteritis outbreak at a scouting camp caused by two norovirus genogroups: GI and GII.
ter Waarbeek, H.L.G., Dukers-Muijrers, N.H.T.M., Vennema, H. and Hoebe, C.J.P.A. (2010) Journal of Clinical Virology, 47 (3); 268-272.

Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)


Congenital anomalies, labor/delivery complications, maternal risk factors and their relationship with perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)-contaminated public drinking water.
Nolan, L.A. , Nolan, J.M., Shofer, F.S., Rodway, N.V. and Emmett, E.A. (2009) Reproductive Toxicology, doi:10.1016/j.reprotox.2009.10.012

Pharmaceuticals


Occurrence of pharmaceuticals and hormones in drinking water treated from surface waters.
Vulliet, E., Cren-Olive, C. and Grenier-Loustalot, M.F. (2009) Environmental Chemistry Letters, 1-12. doi:10.1007/s10311-009-0253-7

POU Treatment


Intermittent slow sand filtration for preventing diarrhoea among children in Kenyan households using unimproved water sources: Randomized controlled trial.
Tiwari, S.S.K., Schmidt, W.P., Darby, J., Kariuki, Z.G. and Jenkins, M.W. (2009) Tropical Medicine and International Health, 14 (11); 1374-1382.


Comparison of point-of-use technologies for emergency disinfection of sewage-contaminated drinking water.
McLennan , S.D. , Peterson, L.A. and Rose, J.B. (2009) Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 75 (22); 7283-7286.


Sodium dichloroisocyanurate tablets for routine treatment of household drinking water in periurban Ghana : A randomized controlled trial.
Jain, S., Sahanoon, O.K., Blanton, E., Schmitz, A., Wannemuehler, K.A., Hoekstra, R.M. and Quick, R.E. (2010) American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 82 (1); 16-22.

Uranium


Uranium in drinking water: Renal effects of long-term ingestion by an aboriginal community.
Zamora , M.L.L., Zielinski, J.M., Moodie, G.B., Falcomer, R.A.F., Hunt, W.C. and Capello, K. (2009) Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health, 64 (4); 228-241.

Water Quality


Comparative study of enteric viruses, coliphages and indicator bacteria for evaluating water quality in a tropical high-altitude system.
Espinosa, A.C., Arias, C.F., Snchez-Colan, S. and Mazari-Hiriart, M. (2009) Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source, 8 (1); art no. 49


Water quality in dental chair units. A random sample in the canton of St. Gallen.
Barben, J., Kuehni, C.E. and Schmid, J. (2009) Schweizer Monatsschrift fur Zahnmedizin = Revue mensuelle suisse d'odonto-stomatologie = Rivista mensile svizzera di odontologia e stomatologia / SSO, 119 (10); 976-985.

Water Usage




Tap water use amongst pregnant women in a multi-ethnic cohort.
Smith, R.B., Toledano, M.B., Wright, J., Raynor, P. and Nieuwenhuijsen, M.J. (2009) Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source, 8 (SUPPL. 1); art. no. S7