Despite improvements in water access, over two billion people lack safe drinking water. Katherine Alfredo’s study shows that while taste thresholds for chlorine in rural Indigenous Ngäbe and Latino Panamanians are higher than recommended levels, taste aversion is not a major barrier to adopting chlorinated water in these communities. In recognition of the importance of ethics in environmental epidemiology, Ethics Guidelines were established in 1996 and adopted by the International…
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