Leveraging bacteria in drinking water to benefit consumers
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 - 11:01
in Health & Medicine
Contrary to popular belief, purified drinking water from home faucets contains millions to hundreds of millions of widely differing bacteria per gallon, and scientists have discovered a plausible way to manipulate those populations of mostly beneficial microbes to potentially benefit consumers. Their study appears in ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology.