Salvatore Sciacca, Gea Oliveri Conti, Maria Fiore, Roberto Fallico and Margherita Ferrante
University of Catania, Italy

Series: Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology, Public Health in the 21st Century
BISAC: TEC010030

Disinfection of water for human consumption could be considered the most significant public health measure taken during the last century; destroying pathogens in drinking water has drastically reduced the incidence of waterborne diseases in all industrialized countries. Chlorination is currently used as water treatment due to its action; it is preferred to ozonization because is less expensive and leads to residual action. This new book highlights the risks that chlorination, as a water purifying treatment, may pose to the population health, as it causes the formation of various by-products, many of which are known to be carcinogenic. (Imprint: Nova)