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Non-achievement of the Drinking-water Standards for New Zealand: E. coli transgressions

Summary

This report was undertaken for the Ministry of Health to review data from the annual survey of drinking water quality to see if there was evidence that maintaining a chlorine residual could overcome occasional E. coli transgressions, and evidence of the cause of these transgressions.

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