Leashing Hydra

摘要

Of all public health concerns, the safety of drinking water is paramount. Infiltration of potable waters by toxic compounds or biota can render a host of woeful harms with onset from rapid to chronic and potentially lethal results. The ubiquity of water, its vitality to our well-being, and its solvent properties means that often retiring one problem has it spring up elsewhere, often mutated just enough to require new approaches.