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Water Quality for Drinking: WHO Guidelines

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Acknowledgement is made to the World Health Organization (WHO) for permission to reproduce Table 1 from their Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality, third ed.

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Herschy, R.W. (2012). Water Quality for Drinking: WHO Guidelines. In: Bengtsson, L., Herschy, R.W., Fairbridge, R.W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Lakes and Reservoirs. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4410-6_184

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