Identifying Future Drinking Water Contaminants (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780309064323)

With an increasing population, use of new and diverse chemicals that can enter the water supply, and emergence of new microbial pathogens, the U.S. federal government is faced with a regulatory dilemma: Where should it focus its attention and limited resources to ensure safe drinking water supplies for the future?

Identifying Future Drinking Water Contaminants is based on a 1998 workshop on emerging drinking water contaminants. It includes a dozen papers that were presented on new and emerging microbiological and chemical drinking water contaminants, associated analytical and water treatment methods for their detection and removal, and existing and proposed environmental databases to assist in their proactive identification and regulation.

The papers are preceded by a conceptual approach and related recommendations to EPA for the periodic creation of future Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate Lists (CCLs--produced every five years--include currently unregulated chemical and microbiological substances that are known or anticipated to occur in public water systems and that may pose health risks).

Author: National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences Environment an
ISBN-10: 0309064325
ISBN-13: 9780309064323
Publisher: National Academies Press
Language: English
Published: 09/30/1999
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 10.88h x 8.44w x 0.72d