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Drinking water regulation and health /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pontius, Frederick W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Wiley-Interscience, [2003]
Subjects:
United States. > Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974.
Water Supply > legislation & jurisprudence > United States.
Fresh Water > analysis > United States.
Policy Making > United States.
Water Pollution > legislation & jurisprudence > United States.
Water Supply > standards > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The safe drinking water act and public health
  • Drinking water and public health protection
  • Improving waterborne disease surveillance
  • Waterborne outbreaks in the United States, 1971-2000
  • History of the safe drinking water act (SDWA)
  • SDWA : looking to the future
  • Regulation development
  • Toxicological basis for drinking water risk assessment
  • Epidemiologic concepts for interpreting findings in studies of drinking water exposures
  • Application of risk assessments in crafting drinking water regulations
  • "Sound" science and drinking water regulation
  • Benefit-cost analysis and drinking water regulation
  • Public envolvement in regulation development
  • Contaminant regulation and treatment
  • Control of drinking water pathogens and disinfection byproducts
  • Regulating radionuclides in drinking water
  • Risk-based framework for future regulatory decision-making
  • Selection of treatment technology for SDWA compliance
  • SDWA compliance using point-of-use (POU) and point-of-entry (POE) treatment
  • Compliance challenges
  • Death of the silent service : meeting consumer expectations
  • Acheiving the capacity to comply
  • Acheiving sustainable water systems
  • Protecting sensitive subpopulations
  • Environmental justice and drinking water regulation
  • What water suppliers need to know about toxic tort litigation
  • Intellectual property laws and water technology
  • Water system security
  • Appendix A. Summary tables of drinking water standards and health advisories
  • Appendix B. 1962 U.S. Public Health Service standards
  • Appendix C. Section-by- section summary of the SDWA
  • Appendix D. Text of the SDWA as amended and related statutes
  • Appendix E. How our laws are made
  • Appendix F. Enactment of a law
  • Appendix G. Listing of drinking water
  • Appendix H. Outline of 40 CFR 141, 142, and 143
  • Appendix I. Example capacity development tool
  • Appendix J. U.S. Water Industry statistics