Author: John B. HurshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal water supply
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The Radium Content of Public Water Supplies
Author: John B. HurshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal water supply
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Radium in Ground Water from Public-water Supplies in Northern Illinois
Author: Robert T. KayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drinking water
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Natural Radioactivity in North Carolina Ground Water Supplies
Author: Marc Y. MenetrezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drinking water
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Radon, Radium, and Uranium in Drinking Water
Author: C. Richard CothernPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1498710700
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
With new regulations for radionuclides in drinking water, this volume will be valuable for understanding where radionuclides come from, how their prescence is determined, where humans come in contact with them, health effects consequences (both for individuals and communities), removal from water, disposal problems and cost implications.
Radium-226 Concentrations in Public Drinking Water Supplies in Oklahoma
Author: Robert D. DelanoNationwide Occurrence of Radon and Other Natural Radioactivity in Public Water Supplies
Author: Thomas R. HortonPublisher:
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Category : Radioactive pollution of water
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Risk Assessment of Radon in Drinking Water
Author: Committee on Risk Assessment of Exposure to Radon in Drinking WaterPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309524741
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Safe Drinking Water Act directs the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate the quality of drinking water, including its concentration of radon, an acknowledged carcinogen. This book presents a valuable synthesis of information about the total inhalation and ingestion risks posed by radon in public drinking water, including comprehensive reviews of data on the transfer of radon from water to indoor air and on outdoor levels of radon in the United States. It also presents a new analysis of a biokinetic model developed to determine the risks posed by ingestion of radon and reviews inhalation risks and the carcinogenesis process. The volume includes scenarios for quantifying the reduction in health risk that might be achieved by a program to reduce public exposure to radon. Risk Assessment of Radon in Drinking Water, reflecting research and analysis mandated by 1996 amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act, provides comment on a variety of methods to reduce radon entry into homes and to reduce the concentrations of radon in indoor air and in water. The models, analysis, and reviews of literature contained in this book are intended to provide information that EPA will need to set a new maximum contaminant level, as it is required to do in 2000.
Drinking Water and Health,
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 9780309078313
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
The most recent volume in the Drinking Water and Health series contains the results of a two-part study on the toxicity of drinking water contaminants. The first part examines current practices in risk assessment, identifies new noncancerous toxic responses to chemicals found in drinking water, and discusses the use of pharmacokinetic data to estimate the delivered dose and response. The second part of the book provides risk assessments for 14 specific compounds, 9 presented here for the first time.
Radium-224 in Community Water System Groundwater Sources
Author: Pennsylvania. Bureau of Water Supply and Wastewater ManagementPublisher:
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Category : Drinking water
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
Natural Radioactivity In Water Supplies
Author: Jack K HornerPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0429689160
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
There is little disagreement that the potential effects of water contamination on human health and the environment should not be ignored, even though the exact nature of those effects is not yet fully understood. That permanently incapacitating and even lethal substances (asbestos, for example) have, in ignorance, been introduced into the environment may become apparent only decades after their introduction. A new principle in water quality regulation is emerging in response to awareness of these dangers: An individual or organization can be held accountable for hazards to human health or for degradation of the environment created by the introduction of a substance, even if the individual or organization is not the source of that substance, even if no regulation of the substance currently exists, and even if the substance is not known to be hazardous or to degrade the environment at the time its release occurs. This book outlines the scientific aspects of the control of natural radioactivity in water supplies, as well as the labyrinthine uncertainties in water quality regulation concerning natural radiocontamination of water. The author provides an introduction to the theory of natural radioactivity, addresses risk assessment, describes sources and effects of natural radiocontamination of water, surveys federal water law concerning natural radiocontamination, and presents an account of how one city dealt with the perplexities that mark this rapidly evolving area of water quality regulation.