Microbes: Continue to be a detection challenge

摘要

Federal regulation of drinking water quality began in 1914 when the US Public Health Service set bacteriological quality standards for drinking water. By consensus or fate JOURNAL AWWA began publishing that same year. Identification of water-borne contaminants, especially microbiological organisms, as the cause of disease has evolved substantially over the past nine decades. Since the first identified typhoid fever and cholera outbreaks in the early 1900s, the list of recognized, emerging, and reemerg-ing microbial contaminants has exploded to include a vast repertoire of bacteria, viruses, and protozoa.