Drinking Water Minerals and Mineral Balance Importance, Health Signi
Following the successful first edition of this book on drinking water quality and health, this new edition puts more focus on the importance of minerals in drinking water. It includes new scientific material and presents additional studies on the negative
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Drinking Water Minerals and Mineral Balance Importance, Health Significance, Safety Precautions Second Edition
Drinking Water Minerals and Mineral Balance
Ingegerd Rosborg • Frantisek Kozisek Editors
Drinking Water Minerals and Mineral Balance Importance, Health Significance, Safety Precautions Second Edition
Editors Ingegerd Rosborg Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED) KTH, Royal Institute of Engineering Stockholm, Sweden
Frantisek Kozisek Department of Water Hygiene National Institute of Public Health Prague, Czech Republic
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Minerals in Water: A Win-Win Issue for Public Health
In the early twenty-first century, drinking water security is rightly a global concern, as hundreds of millions of people still lack daily access to clean and safe drinking water. The increasing risks of climate change have brought us to the awareness that in many regions of the world, water security is under increasing threat and cannot be taken for granted. In more and more locations, people are drinking water that has been treated and recycled from lower-quality water or seawater, while conversely the sales of bottled mineral water are skyrocketing. Water is essential for life and health, with each adult human being needing to drink on average at least 2 L of water per day to maintain optimum fitness and alertness. Water safety is generally linked with the absence of disease-causing bacteria or pathogens. Yet it is not only
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