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By
Patrick Sullivan, Partner, Forensic Management Associates, San Mateo, CA
Franklin Agardy, President, Forensic Management Associates, San Mateo, CA
James Clark, Soil/Water/Air/Protection Enterprise, Santa Monica, CA
Description
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drinking water quality are grossly out of date.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.
Audience
Environmental engineers, geologists, hydrologists, professionals and practitioners in public health, urban planning, science policy, ecology,
soil science, agronomy, public health, natural resource management, urban planning, environmental consultants, public interest groups
and county, city, state and federal state regulatory agencies.
Contents
Foreward
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. The Water We Drink
Natural Water
Water and the Public Health
References
2. Water Pollution
Human
Waste and Pollution
Industrial Pollution
Wastewater Control and Treatment
Nonpoint Sources of Water Pollution
Pollution Sources and Water
Quality
Summary
References
3. Water Protection
The Basics of Water Supply
Basic Water Treatment
Beyond Basic Water Treatment
An Issue
of Equality
Chemical Monitoring and Warnings for Regulated Pollutants
The National Drinking Water Contaminant Occurrence Database
Unregulated
Pollutants and Monitoring Regulations
Setting New Drinking Water Standards
Why Consumers Should be Concerned
Approaches to Mitigate Chemical
Exposure
Water Pollution and Risk
References
4. Living with the Risk of Polluted Water
The Burden of Proof
Permissible Pollution
The
Dose Makes the Poison
Basic Concepts of Dose
Mechanism of Toxicity
Biotransformation and Detoxification
Toxicity and Defining Standards
Timing is Everything
Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals
Pharmaceutical Pollutants
Pharmaceuticals Detected in the Environment
Living with
Risk
Population, Pollution, Risk, and Precaution
The Risk Assessment Process
Summary
References
5. Managing Risk and Drinking Water Quality
Learning from the Past and Present
Risk and Economics
An Alternative Approach
Consumer-Based Protection
Potential Action by the Water
Industry
Potential Governmental Actions
An Alternative Risk Management Program
References
Appendix 1-1 Average Elemental Abundance in
the Earth?s Crust
Appendix 1-2 Chemical Compounds with Established Water Quality Criteria
Appendix 1-3 USEPA National Recommended Water
Quality Criteria for Freshwater and Human Consumption of Water + Organism: 2002
Appendix 2-1 Dow Industrial Chemicals, Solvents
and Dyes in 1938
Appendix 2-2 USEPA List of Priority Pollutants
Appendix 2-3 Summary of Surface Water Data
Appendix 2-4 Summary of Shallow
Groundwater Data
Appendix 2-5 Organic Chemicals Found in Landfill Leachate and Gas
Appendix 2-6 Unregulated Pollutants Discharged to
or Identified in Water Resources
Appendix 2-7 Chemicals Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer or Reproductive Toxicity
Appendix
2-8 Regulated Pesticides in Food with Residue Tolerances
Appendix 2-9 Comparison of Chemicals Required to be Monitored in Groundwater
by RCRA
Appendix 3-1 General Drinking Water Monitoring and Warning Requirements (as of 2002)
Appendix 3-2 National Drinking Water Contaminant
Occurrence Database Data on Primary Water Quality Standards (May 18, 2001)
Appendix 3-3 National Drinking Water Contaminant Occurrence
Database: Data on Unregulated Compounds
Appendix 3-4 Examples of Bottled Mineral Water Chemistry
Appendix 3-5 Examples of Bottled Water
Chemistry
Appendix 3-6 Trace Element Analysis of Mineral Waters (ppb) That Appear in Either
Appendix 3-4 or Appendix 3-5
Appendix 4-1
Glossary of Terms Adapted from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) (1993)
Appendix 4-2 Chemical Examples on
the Toxicology of Drinking Water Standards
Appendix 4-3 Suspected Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals
Appendix 4-4 U.S. Geological Survey
Target Compounds, National Reconnaissance of Emerging Contaminants in U.S. Streams (2000)
Glossary
Index
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Hardbound, 384 pages, publication date: JUL-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-7876-6
ISBN-10: 0-7506-7876-3
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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