Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the Schulich ...

Disinfection of drinking water is an effective water treatment process to prevent the transmission of waterborne infectious diseases. Chlorination has been the most commonly used method to disinfect ...

Trihalomethanes, haloacetic acids, haloacetonitriles, and haloketones (HKs) are the most important classes of disinfection by-products (DBPs) based on concentration in chlorinated drinking water ...