The Environmental Science of Drinking WaterElsevier, 2005 M08 1 - 384 pages In today’s chemically dependent society, environmental studies demonstrate that drinking water in developed countries contains numerous industrial chemicals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and chemicals from water treatment processes. This poses a real threat. As a result of the ever-expanding list of chemical and biochemical products industry, current drinking water standards that serve to preserve our drinking water quality are grossly out of date. Environmental Science of Drinking Water demonstrates why we need to make a fundamental change in our approach toward protecting our drinking water. Factual and circumstantial evidence showing the failure of current drinking water standards to adequately protect human health is presented along with analysis of the extent of pollution in our water resources and drinking water. The authors also present detail of the currently available state-of-the-art technologies which, if fully employed, can move us toward a healthier future. * Addresses the international problems of outdated standards and the overwhelming onslaught of new contaminants. * Includes new monitoring data on non-regulated chemicals in water sources and drinking water.* Includes a summary of different bottled waters as well as consumer water purification technologies. |
Contents
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3 Water Protection | 89 |
4 Living with the Risk of Polluted Water | 143 |
5 Managing Risk and Drinking Water Quality | 197 |
back matter | 231 |
Appendix 12 Chemical Compounds with Established Water Quality Criteria 1952 | 233 |
2002 | 237 |
Appendix 28 Regulated Pesticides in Food with Residue Tolerances | 267 |
Appendix 29 Comparison of Chemicals Required to Be Monitored in Groundwater | 275 |
Appendix 31 General Drinking Water Monitoring and Warning Requirements as of 2002 | 281 |
Appendix 32 National Drinking Water Contaminant Occurrence Database Data on Primary Water Quality Standards May 18 2001 | 285 |
Data on Unregulated Compounds | 293 |
Appendix 34 Examples of Bottled Mineral Water Chemistry | 297 |
Appendix 35 Examples of Bottled Water Chemistry | 315 |
Appendix 36 Trace Element Analysis of Mineral Waters ppb that Appear in Either Appendix 34 or Appendix 35 | 337 |
Appendix 21 Dow Industrial Chemicals Solvents and Dyes in 1938 | 241 |
Appendix 22 USEPA List of Priority Pollutants | 243 |
Appendix 23 Summary of Surface Water Data | 247 |
Appendix 24 Summary of Shallow Groundwater Data | 249 |
Appendix 25 Organic Chemicals Found in Landfill Leachate and Gas | 251 |
Appendix 26 Unregulated Pollutants Discharged to or Identified in Water Resources | 255 |
Appendix 27 Chemicals Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer or Reproductive Toxicity April 20 2001 | 257 |
Appendix 41 Glossary of Terms Adapted from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry IUPAC 1993 | 339 |
Appendix 42 Chemical Examples on the Toxicology of Drinking Water Standards | 343 |
Appendix 43 Suspected EndocrineDisrupting Chemicals | 353 |
Appendix 44 US Geological Survey Target Compounds National Reconnaissance of Emerging Contaminants in U S Streams 2000 | 357 |
Glossary | 361 |
index | 365 |
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Page 161 - Maximum contaminant level goal or MCLG means the maximum level of a contaminant in drinking water at which no known or anticipated adverse effect on the health of persons would occur, and which allows an adequate margin of safety.
Page 193 - When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically.
Page 19 - ContaminaI tlon" shall include any equivalent effect resulting from the disposal of sewage or industrial waste, whether or not waters of the state are affected. "Pollution" means an impairment of the quality of the waters of the state by sewage or industrial waste to a degree which does not create an actual hazard to the public health but which does adversely and unreasonably affect such waters for domestic, industrial, agricultural, navigational, recreational or other beneficial use...
Page 31 - The act then provides that it shall be unlawful for any person, corporation or municipality to build any sewer, drain or sewerage system from which it is designed that any sewage or other harmful and deleterious matter, solid or liquid, shall flow into any of the waters of this state...
Page 29 - The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible.
Page 148 - All substances are poisons; there is none which is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy.
Page 156 - Embryotoxicity and Fetotoxicity — Any toxic effect on the conceptus as a result of prenatal exposure to a chemical; the distinguishing feature between the two terms is the stage of development during which the insult occurs.
Page 162 - The maximum permissible level of a contaminant in water that is delivered to any user of a public water system.
Page 362 - Pollution" means an impairment of the quality of the waters of the state by sewage or industrial waste to a degree which does not create an actual hazard to the public health but which does adversely and unreasonably affect such waters for domestic, industrial, agricultural, navigational, recreational or other beneficial use, or which does adversely and unreasonably affect the ocean waters and bays of the state devoted to public recreation.