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What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?
What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?

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Bhatnagar, A. and Sillanpää, M., (2011)‚ 'A review of emerging adsorbents for nitrate removal from water', Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 168 pp. 493-504 [Online]. Available at http://ac.els-cdn.com/ S1385894711001689/ 1-s2.0-S1385894711001689-main.pdf?_tid=d016085a-ff99-11e4-83b6-00000aab0f6b&acdnat=1432199861_87454979a10f5dd91be90b92344e3bf8 [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] (Accessed 21 May 2015).
Binnie, C. and Kimber, M. (2013) Basic Water Treatment, 5th edn, London, ICE Publishing.
Drinking Water Inspectorate (2013), Nitrate, [Online], London, Drinking Water Inspectorate. Available at http://dwi.defra.gov.uk/ consumers/ advice-leaflets/ nitrate.pdf (Accessed 21 May 2015).
Duffus, J. and Worth, H. (eds) (1996) Fundamental Toxicology for Chemists, Cambridge, Royal Society of Chemistry.
Gupta, V. K., Ali, I., Saleh, T. A., Nayak, A. and Agarwal, S. (2012) 'Chemical treatment technologies for waste-water recycling - an overview', RSC Advances., vol. 2 pp. 6380-6388. [Online]. Available at http://pubs.rsc.org/ en/ Content/ ArticlePDF/ 2012/ RA/ c2ra20340e (Accessed 21 May 2015).
Lewis, R. and Evans, W. (2006) Chemistry, 3rd edn, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Prior, K. (2013) 'Water purity - myths and challenges', Science in Parliament, vol. 70, no. 3 [Online]. Available at http://www.rsc.org/ globalassets/ 04-campaigning-outreach/ tackling-the-worlds-challenges/ water/ water-purity-myths-challenges.pdf (Accessed 21 May 2015).
The Nitrates Directive (2015) European Commission[Online]. Available at http://ec.europa.eu/ environment/ water/ water-nitrates/ index_en.html (Accessed 21 May 2015).