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# Should we be testing our Publicly Owned Water Supplies?

| Yes, according to the February 2015 issue of the American Water and Wastewater Association magazine indicated that POWS are being encouraged to PCR genotype to identify species Cryptosporidium as this can be pathogenic to humans. |
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