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ArticleJournal of water and health2025

Comparing in-home and bottled drinking water quality: regulated and emerging contaminants in rural Central Appalachia.

Kate Albi, Leigh-Anne Krometis, Erin Ling, Alasdair Cohen, Kang Xia, Austin Gray, Emerald Dudzinski, Kimberly Ellis

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Article in Journal of water and health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Kate AlbiDepartment of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 155 Ag Quad Lane, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
Leigh-Anne KrometisDepartment of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 155 Ag Quad Lane, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA E-mail: krometis@vt.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8602-1245
Erin LingDepartment of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 155 Ag Quad Lane, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
Alasdair CohenDepartment of Population Health Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 205 Duck Pond Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
Kang XiaSchool of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 185 Ag Quad Lane, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
Austin GrayDepartment of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 926 West Campus Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
Emerald DudzinskiGrado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1145 Perry Street, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
Kimberly EllisGrado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1145 Perry Street, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.

Funding

Fralin Life Science Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ISCE Fellow Grant
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An increasing number of Americans rely on bottled water for household use, citing perceptions of poor in-home water quality and/or distrust of public water utilities. We analyzed in-home (

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Drinking WaterWater Pollutants, ChemicalWater QualityAppalachian RegionHumansRural PopulationWater SupplyDrinking WaterWater Pollutants, ChemicalAppalachiabottled waterdrinking watermicroplasticsPFAS

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PMID41026134

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