Unsealed tubewells lead to increased fecal contamination of drinking water.

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Published in J Water Health on December 01, 2012

Authors

Peter S K Knappett1, Larry D McKay, Alice Layton, Daniel E Williams, Md J Alam, Brian J Mailloux, Andrew S Ferguson, Patricia J Culligan, Marc L Serre, Michael Emch, Kazi M Ahmed, Gary S Sayler, Alexander van Geen

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410, USA. pknappet@utk.edu

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