Waterborne Illness

Traditional brass pitchers may hold the secret of safe drinking water

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, April 12th, 2005

Where there's brass there may be no muck, say researchers looking at the safety of drinking water kept in traditional pitchers in rural India, who presented their work at the Society for General Microbiology's 156th Meeting at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

Transporting and storing water in brass pitchers may be saving lives in rural India, according to researchers from Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne. The scientists looked at the effectiveness of storing contaminated water for over 2 days in traditional brass, earthenware and modern plastic containers.

"We discovered that when the water was contaminated with typical fecal bacteria...

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