More (drinking) water

http://www.homepages.indiana.edu/102502/

here’s an update on IU research affecting drinking water.

Research & Creative Activity profiles the work of IU Kokomo biologist Christian Chauret in its current issue. He studies a parasite known as Cryptosporidium, commonly found in surface water, that poses a threat to the public’s drinking water supply. The parasite caused more than 100 deaths through an illness called cryptosporidiosis in Milwaukee in 1993 and is particularly dangerous to those with weakened or immature immune systems.

Chauret is working on several projects related to finding a way to control the parasite and its threat to life. One project, funded with a grant from the Chlorine Institute as well as a grant from IU’s Intercampus Research Fund, is exploring whether chlorine dioxide, ozone, ultraviolet radiation or another method might be more effective in killing a particular species of the pathogen, C. parvum. He is working with IU Bloomington biologist Barry Stein on the project, and another project, exploring the effect of water quality on turtles, is a partnership with IUK colleague Michael Finkler.

http://www.indiana.edu/~rcapub/v25n1/water.shtml

http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/HomePages/112098/
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