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La Calidad Del Agua Potable En Arica, Con Respecto A La Salud, Emily Lubell
La Calidad Del Agua Potable En Arica, Con Respecto A La Salud, Emily Lubell
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
Water is essential to sustain life, and the availability of safe drinking water is a concern throughout the world. This study examines the potential negative health effects related to drinking the potable water in Arica, Chile. It also looks at who has access to purified water. This study was implemented over a span of four weeks in which information was collected from different local resources including, the potable water distributor, private water vendors, professors, and public health service workers. In comparison with 2001, 2009 levels of boron, total hardness and total dissolved solids are higher in concentration. In both 2001 …