Author: Hunter StoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bacterial pollution of water
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Characterizing Bacterial Contamination of Drinking Water Wells in North Carolina
Author: Hunter StoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bacterial pollution of water
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Contaminated Water Supplies at Camp Lejeune
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309136997
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In the early 1980s, two water-supply systems on the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina were found to be contaminated with the industrial solvents trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE). The water systems were supplied by the Tarawa Terrace and Hadnot Point watertreatment plants, which served enlisted-family housing, barracks for unmarried service personnel, base administrative offices, schools, and recreational areas. The Hadnot Point water system also served the base hospital and an industrial area and supplied water to housing on the Holcomb Boulevard water system (full-time until 1972 and periodically thereafter). This book examines what is known about the contamination of the water supplies at Camp Lejeune and whether the contamination can be linked to any adverse health outcomes in former residents and workers at the base.
Geologic Predictors of Drinking Water Well Contamination in North Carolina
Author: Taylor Rene AlvaradoGround Water Contamination in North Carolina Private Wells
Author: Scott GeisPublisher:
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Category : Drinking water
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Report summaries
Author: United States. Environmental Protection AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1584
Book Description
Drinking Water Quality and Human Health
Author: Patrick LevalloisPublisher: MDPI
ISBN: 3038977268
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
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.
Bacterial Contamination of Rural Drinking Water Wells
Author: Characterization of Fecal Contamination in the Newport River Estuary (North Carolina, USA).
Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Characterization of fecal contamination in the Newport River Estuary (North Carolina, USA).
The Influence of Well Construction on Bacterial Contamination
Author: Bryan R. SwistockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bacterial pollution of water
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
An Assessment of Pesticide Contamination of Eastern North Carolina Well Water
Author: Darlene J. KuckenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pesticides
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description