Features of Water Origin on the Planet Earth. New Aproaches to the Assessment of Water Quality

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issues of origin of water on the planet Earth and hypotheses of hydrosphere genesis have been dealt with. The article underscores interrelationship between the quality of drinking water and the level of evolution of human intellect. Substantiated is the principled insufficiency of assessing the drinking water using only chemical and microbiological methods of control. The research showed the necessity of introducing new standards for drinking water taking into consideration its safety at the cytogenetic level. The article has analyzed problems of obtaining high quality drinking water and methods of its decontamination. For the first time we demonstrated that chlorinated tap water is the medium habitat of hazardous for humans of nonculturable, but viable pathogenic forms of microflora.