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New Delhi
21. B.C. Ministry of Environment, Land and Parks (1996) British Columbia water quality status
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22. American Public Health Association, American Water Works Association, and Water Environment Federation (1998) Standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater.
American Public Health Association, Washington, DC
23. Streeter HW, Phelps EB (1925) A study of the pollution and natural purification of the Ohio
river. III. Factors concerned in the phenomena of oxidation and reaeration, public health bulletin
no. 146, reprinted by U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Public Health Service,
1958, ISBN B001BP4GZI, http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/handle/19716/1590/
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24. Polak J (2004) Nitrification in the surface water of the Włocławek dam reservoir. The process
contribution to biochemical oxygen demand (N-BOD). Pol J Environ Stud 13(4):415–424
25. Wilczak A, Jacangelo JG, Marcinko JP, Odell LH, Kirmeyer GJ, Wolfe RL (1996) Occurrence
of nitrification in chloraminated distribution systems. J AWWA 88(7):74–85
26. Treusch AH, Leininger S, Kletzin A, Schuster SC, Klenk HP, Schleper C (2005) Novel genes
for nitrite reductase and Amo-related proteins indicate a role of uncultivated mesophilic
crenarchaeota in nitrogen cycling. Environ Microbiol 7:1985–1995
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Phylogeny of all recognized species of ammonia oxidizers based on comparative 16S rRNA and
amoA sequence analysis: implications for molecular diversity surveys. Appl Environ Microbiol
66:5368–5382
28. Könneke M, Bernhard AE, de la Torre JR, Walker CM, Waterbury JB, Stahl DA (2005)
Isolation of a mesophilic autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing marine archaeon. Nature
437:543–546
29. Martens-Habbena W, Berube PM, Urakawa H, de la Torre JR, Stahl DA (2009) Ammonia
oxidation kinetics determine niche separation of nitrifying archaea and Bacteria. Nature
461:976–981
30. Skadsen J, Sanford L (1996) The effectiveness of high pH for control of nitrification and the
impact of ozone on nitrification control. In proc. 1996 AWWA water quality technology
conference. AWWA, Boston
31. Odell LH, Kirmeyer GJ, Wilczak A, Jacangelo JG, Marcinko JP, Wolfe RL (1996) Controlling
nitrification in Chloraminated systems. J AWWA 88(7):86–98
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Resource Quality Section, Ministry of Environment and Parks
37. Fecal Pollution of Water Quality (2013) Chapter in book, Guidelines for Safe Recreational
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