Selected Water Resources Abstracts
Title | Selected Water Resources Abstracts PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 918 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Water |
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Handbook of Water Purity and Quality
Title | Handbook of Water Purity and Quality PDF eBook |
Author | Satinder Ahuja |
Publisher | Academic Press |
Pages | 457 |
Release | 2009-07-17 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0080921124 |
This work provides those involved in water purification research and administration with a comprehensive resource of methods for analyzing water to assure its safety from contaminants, both natural and human caused. The book first provides an overview of major water-related issues in developing and developed countries, followed by a review of issues of sampling for water analysis, regulatory considerations and forensics in water quality and purity investigations. The subsequent chapters cover microbial as well chemical contaminations from inorganic compounds, radionuclides, volatile and semi-volatile compounds, disinfectants, herbicides, and pharmaceuticals, including endocrine disruptors, as well as potential terrorist-related contamination. The last chapter describes the Grainger prize-winning filter that can remove arsenic from water sources and sufficiently protect the health of a large number of people. Covers the scope of water contamination problems on a worldwide scale Provides a rich source of methods for analyzing water to assure its safety from natural and deliberate contaminants Describes the filter that won the $1 million Grainger prize and thereby highlighting an important approach to remediation
Water Quality Abstracts
Title | Water Quality Abstracts PDF eBook |
Author | Pollution Abstracts, Inc |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1143 |
Release | 1973 |
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From Source Water to Drinking Water
Title | From Source Water to Drinking Water PDF eBook |
Author | Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 126 |
Release | 2004-11-01 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0309165520 |
The Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine was established in 1988 as a mechanism for bringing the various stakeholders together to discuss environmental health issues in a neutral setting. The members of the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine come from academia, industry, and government. Their perspectives range widely and represent the diverse viewpoints of researchers, federal officials, and consumers. They meet, discuss environmental health issues that are of mutual interest, and bring others together to discuss these issues as well. For example, they regularly convene workshops to help facilitate discussion of a particular topic. The Rountable's fifth national workshop entitled From Source Water to Drinking Water: Ongoing and Emerging Challenges for Public Health continued the theme established by previous Roundtable workshops, looking at rebuilding the unity of health and the environment. This workshop summary captures the discussions and presentations by the speakers and participants, who identified the areas in which additional research was needed, the processes by which changes could occur, and the gaps in our knowledge.
Water Quality Abstracts
Title | Water Quality Abstracts PDF eBook |
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Pages | 0 |
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Drinking Water Quality and Human Health
Title | Drinking Water Quality and Human Health PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Levallois |
Publisher | MDPI |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2019-04-04 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 3038977268 |
The quality of drinking water is paramount for public health. Despite important improvements in the last decades, access to safe drinking water is not universal. The World Health Organization estimates that almost 10% of the population in the world do not have access to improved drinking water sources. Among other diseases, waterborne infections cause diarrhea, which kills nearly one million people every year, mostly children under 5 years of age. On the other hand, chemical pollution is a concern in high-income countries and an increasing problem in low- and middle-income countries. Exposure to chemicals in drinking water may lead to a range of chronic non-communicable diseases (e.g., cancer, cardiovascular disease), adverse reproductive outcomes, and effects on children’s health (e.g., neurodevelopment), among other health effects. Although drinking water quality is regulated and monitored in many countries, increasing knowledge leads to the need for reviewing standards and guidelines on a nearly permanent basis, both for regulated and newly identified contaminants. Drinking water standards are mostly based on animal toxicity data, and more robust epidemiologic studies with accurate exposure assessment are needed. The current risk assessment paradigm dealing mostly with one-by-one chemicals dismisses the potential synergisms or interactions from exposures to mixtures of contaminants, particularly at the low-exposure range. Thus, evidence is needed on exposure and health effects of mixtures of contaminants in drinking water. Finally, water stress and water quality problems are expected to increase in the coming years due to climate change and increasing water demand by population growth, and new evidence is needed to design appropriate adaptation policies. This Special Issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on the current state of knowledge on the links between drinking water quality and human health.
Water Quality Abstracts
Title | Water Quality Abstracts PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Janensch |
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Pages | |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Water |
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