title: Water quality in rural Australia.
abstract: Grab samples of drinking water collected from reservoirs and from creeks flowing over pristine land, farmland or land having mixed use were analysed for their physicochemical and microbiological characteristics. A significant difference between sites for conductivity and sites for pH was noted using a two-way ANOVA. No significant interactions were detected between any of the other parameters: Giardia, Cryptosporidium, Escherichia coli, coliforms, plate count, turbidity or rainfall.
authors.affiliation: Australian Catholic University, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. r.thurman@aquinas.acu.edu.au
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Thurman
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Faulkner
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Veal
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cramer
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meiklejohn
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001315:Australia; D003458:Cryptosporidium / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005872:Giardia / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D009391:Nephelometry and Turbidimetry; D014871:Water Microbiology; D014881:Water Supply / Q000592:standards*