Title Identifying Future Drinking Water Contaminants

Published Washington : National Academies Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (276 pages) Contents Identifying Future Drinking Water Contaminants -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Committee Report A Conceptual Approach for the Development of Future Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List -- LIMITATIONS OF THE FIRST CCL DEVELOPMENT PROCESS -- IDENTIFYING AND SELECTING CONTAMINANTS FOR FUTURE CCLS -- A Broad Approach -- Culling the Universe to Create a PCCL -- Generating the CCL from the PCCL -- Characteristics of an Ideal Prioritization Tool -- Review of Existing Hazard Ranking Approaches -- Cadmus Risk Index Approach Interagency Testing Committee ApproachWaste Minimization Prioritization Tool -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- REFERENCES -- 1 Historical Overview of Drinking Water Contaminants and Public Water Utilities -- LONDON, NINETEENTH CENTURY -- UNITED STATES, TWENTIETH CENTURY -- THE CHEMICAL REVOLUTION -- THE MICROBIAL REVIVAL -- RETURN OF TRACE CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS -- THE CHALLENGE -- REFERENCES -- 2 Emerging Drinking Water Contaminants: Overview and Role of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program -- NAWQA DESIGN Overview of Study-Unit InvestigationsSampling Design for Surface Water and Groundwater -- Rivers and Streams -- Groundwater -- Selection of Target Analytes -- Identification of Emerging Contaminants -- SELECTED FINDINGS -- Individual Study Units -- National Synthesis: Pesticides in Surface Water and Groundwater -- VOCs in Ground Water -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 3 CDC Perspective on Emerging Chemical Contaminants in Drinking Water -- CDC'S EXPERTISE -- Epidemiology -- Biomonitoring -- Surveillance -- PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH CURRENT NCEH ACTIVITIES WITH EMERGING CONTAMINANTSMTBE -- DBPS -- Endocrine Disrupters -- CAFO Issues -- Infrastructure Issues -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 4 Past and Future Strategies for Sorting and Ranking Chemicals: Applications to the 1998 Drinking Water Contaminant� -- EPA'S RESPONSIBILITIES -- COMMITTEE ON DRINKING WATER CONTAMINANTS -- PAST TECHNIQUES FOR PRIORITIZING CHEMICALS -- Techniques Reviewed by the Committee on Drinking Water Contaminants -- Schemes to Prioritize Drinking Water Contaminants -- Schemes to Prioritize All Contaminants Schemes to Prioritize Contaminants for Specific MediaOther Techniques -- FUTURE PROCEDURES FOR SORTING AND RANKING CHEMICALS -- 1998 DRINKING WATER CONTAMINANT CANDIDATE LIST -- TSCA Interagency Testing Committee (ITC) -- ITC Decisions for the 1998 CCL Chemicals -- TSCA Section 4 and 8(d) Studies Indexed in the TSCA Test Submissions (TSCATS) Database -- Uses and Substructure-Based Computerized Chemical Selection Expert System (SuCCSES) Chemical Classes for the 1998 CCL� Notes ""Log Octanol Water Partition Coefficient (log Kow) Values, Soil or Sediment Sorption Coefficient (Koc) Values, and Henry's�"" Print version record Subject Water -- Pollution -- United States -- Congresses Drinking water -- Contamination -- United States -- Congresses Drinking water -- Health aspects -- United States -- Congresses Drinking water -- Contamination. Drinking water -- Health aspects. Water -- Pollution. United States. Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780309561822 0309561825

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