Handbook of Water and Wastewater Microbiology

Some 2300 years ago Hippocrates wrote: ‘My other topic is water, and I now wish to give an account both about waters that cause disease and about those that are healthy, and what bad things arise from water and what good things. For water contributes very much to health.’ So our appreciation of a relationship between the water we use and our health has been with us for a very long time. Hi…