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Drinking Water Links in the United States

Find out about your local water quality - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water: http://www.epa.gov/safewater/dwinfo.htm

American Academy of Microbiology Colloquia Reports: "Clean Water, What is Acceptable Microbial Risk?" and other water-related reports: http://www.asm.org/Academy/index.asp?bid=54416

American Water Works Association, Drinking Water Week: http://www.awwa.org/Advocacy/dww/

Home water testing - E-Watertest.com: http://www.e-watertest.com/

Bottled water: Pure Drink or Pure Hype? Natural Resources Defense Council: http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/nbw.asp

National Water Resources Association: http://www.nwra.org

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water: http://www.epa.gov/OGWDW/

U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources of the United States: http://water.usgs.gov/

U.S. Water News Online: http://www.uswaternews.com/homepage.html

Ways to Save Water - Earth News Radio (ENN): http://enn.com/biz.html?id=329

AAPFCO (Association of American Plant Food Control Officials). 2002. Commercial Fertilizer Database (2002). AAPFCO Division of Regulatory Services, University of Kentucky.

CalEPA (California Environmental Protection Agency). 2005. TMDL Information — Background. State Water Resources Control Board. http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/tmdl/background.html. Accessed December 13, 2005.

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). 1997. Chemical Assistance Manual for Premanufacture Notification Submitters. EPA 744-R-97-003. March 1997. http://www.epa.gov/oppt/newchems/pubs/chem-pmn/index.htm.

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). 1998. Chemical Hazard Data Availability Study. What Do We Really Know About the Safety of High Production Volume Chemicals? http://www.epa.gov/chemrtk/hazchem.pdf.

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). 2000. 2000 National Water Quality Inventory. National Water Quality Report to Congress under Clean Water Act Section 305(b). http://www.epa.gov/305b/2000report/. Accessed December 13, 2005.

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). 2001a. Controlling Disinfection Byproducts and Microbial Contaminants in Drinking Water. Chapter 2: A review of drinking water regulations in the U.S. EPA 600R01110. http://www.epa.gov/nrmrl/pubs/index.html. Accessed December 13, 2005.

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). 2001b. Occurrence of Unregulated Contaminants in Public Water Systems — A National Summary. EPA Office of Water. EPA 815-P-00-002. June 2001. http://www.epa.gov/safewater/ucmr/ucm_rounds_1-2.html. Accessed December 13, 2005.

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). 2001c. Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule 1 (UCMR 1). Table: UCMR Monitoring List. http://www.epa.gov/safewater/ucmr/ucmr1/factsheet.html#list. Accessed December 13, 2005.

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). 2003. National Management Measures to Control Nonpoint Source Pollution from Agriculture. EPA 841-B-03-004. July 2003. http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/agmm/. Accessed December 13, 2005.

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). 2003. U.S. EPA Toxics Release Inventory — Reporting Year 2003 Public Data Release, Summary of Key Findings. Toxics Release Inventory Program. http://www.epa.gov/tri/tridata/tri03/index.htm. Accessed December 13, 2005.

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). 2004a. Protecting Water Quality from Agricultural Runoff. EPA 841-F-03-004. Available from http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/agriculture.html. Accessed December 13, 2005.

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). 2004b. 2004 Edition of the Drinking Water Standards and Health Advisories. EPA 822-R-04-005. Available from http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/drinking/standards/dwstandards.pdf. Accessed December 13, 2005.

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). 2005a. List of Contaminants and Their MCLs. http://www.epa.gov/safewater/mcl.html#mcls. Accessed December 13, 2005.

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). 2005b. Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List 2. http://www.epa.gov/safewater/ccl/ccl2_list.html. Accessed December 13, 2005.

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). 2005c. Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule 2 (UCMR 2). UCMR 2 Contaminants and Corresponding Analytical Methods. http://www.epa.gov/safewater/ucmr/ucmr2/factsheet.html#list. Accessed December 13, 2005.

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). 2005d. PPCPs as Environmental Pollutants. National Exposure Research Laboratory. Environmental Sciences. http://www.epa.gov/esd/chemistry/pharma/new.htm. Accessed December 13, 2005.

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). 2005e. Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment. Third Report to Congress. June 2005. http://www.epa.gov/safewater/needssurvey/pdfs /2003/report_needssurvey_2003.pdf. Accessed December 13, 2005.

Faust, Samuel D and Osman M Aly. 1998. Chemistry of Water Treatment. Second Edition. Ann Arbor Press. Ann Arbor, MI.

FR (Federal Register). 1996. Vol. 61, No. 94. Tuesday, May 14, 1996. Final Rule. National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Monitoring Requirements for Public Drinking Water Supplies: Cryptosporidium, Giardia, Viruses, Disinfection Byproducts, Water Treatment Plant Data and Other Information Requirements.

FR (Federal Register). 1998. Vol. 63, No. 24. December 16, 1998. National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts; Final Rule.

GAO (U.S. Government Accountability Office). 2005. Chemical Regulation: Options Exist to Improve EPA's Ability to Assess Health Risks and Manage Its Chemical Review Program. GAO-05-458. June 2005.

The Harris Poll. 2005. The Harris Poll #77. Three-Quarters of U.S. Adults Agree Environmental Standards Cannot Be Too High and Continuing Improvements Must Be Made Regardless of Cost. October 13, 2005. http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=607. Accessed December 13, 2005.

IBWA (International Bottled Water Association). 2005. The 2004 Stats. Source: Commentary and content provided by Beverage Marketing Corporation. Bottled Water Continues As Number 2 in 2004. http://www.bottledwater.org/public/BWFactsHome_main.htm. Accessed December 13, 2005.

Kolpin DW, Furlong ET, Meyer MT, Thurman EM, Zaugg SD, Barber LB, Buxton HT. 2002. Pharmaceuticals, hormones, and other organic wastewater contaminants in U.S. streams, 1999-2000: a national reconnaissance. Environ Sci Technol. 2002 Mar 15;36(6):1202-11.

Richardson, Susan D. 1998. Drinking water disinfection byproducts. In Encyclopedia of Environmental Analysis and Remediation, Robert A. Myers, ed. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Richardson, Susan D., Alfred D. Thruston, Jr., Chaim Rav-Acha, Ludmila Groisman, Inna Popilevsky, Olga Juraev, Victor Glezer, A. Bruce McKague, Michael J. Plewa, and Elizabeth D. Wagner. 2003. Tribromopyrrole, Brominated Acids, and Other Disinfection Byproducts Produced by Disinfection of Drinking Water Rich in Bromide. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2003, 37, 3782-3793.

Richardson, Susan D., Alfred D. Thruston, Jr., Tashia V. Caughran, Paul H. Chen, Timothy W. Collette, and Terrance L. Floyd. Identification of New Drinking Water Disinfection Byproducts Formed in the Presence of Bromide. Environ. Sci. Technol. 1999a.

Richardson, Susan D., Alfred D. Thruston, Jr., Tashia V. Caughran, Paul H. Chen, Timothy W. Collette, Terrance L. Floyd, Kathleen M. Schenck, Benjamin W. Lykins, Jr., Guang-Ri Sun, and George Majetich. Identification fo New Ozone Disinfection Byproducts in Drinking Water. Environ. Sci. Technol. 1999b.

Stackelberg PE, Furlong ET, Meyer MT, Zaugg SD, Henderson AK, Reissman DB. Persistence of pharmaceutical compounds and other organic wastewater contaminants in a conventional drinking-water-treatment plant. Sci Total Environ. 2004 Aug 15;329(1-3):99-113.

TPL and AWWA (The Trust for Public Lands and American Water Works Association). 2004. Protecting the Source. Land Conservation and the Future of America. http://www.tpl.org/tier3_cd.cfm?content_item_id=14288&folder_id=175.

USCB (U.S. Census Bureau). Population Growth Rate in the U.S. http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html.

USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture). 2002. National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) historical data for 2002. http://www.nass.usda.gov/Data_and_Statistics/index.asp.

USGS (U.S. Geological Survey). 2003. Projections of Land Use and Land Cover Change. U.S. Global Change Research Program. http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/ProgramElements/recent/landrecent.htm.

USGS (U.S. Geological Survey). 1999. The Quality of Our Nation's Waters. Nutrients and Pesticides. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 122. http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1225/html/wq_urban.html.

Additional Resources

National Tap Water Quality. The National Tap Water Testing database is available at www.ewg.org/sites/tapwater/.

Unregulated contaminants. Tap water contaminants that have been found by water utilities and that lack enforceable health standards are shown at www.ewg.org/sites/tapwater/national/unregcontams.php/.

Drinking Water Issues in Other Countries

Global International Waters Assessment: http://www.giwa.net/

Netherlands Water Partnership Water Information Network: http://www.nwp.nl/

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Freshwater activities: http://www.unep.org/themes/freshwater/

U.N. Environment Program UNEP.Net Freshwater Portal: http://freshwater.unep.net/

UN Environment Programme: GEMS/Water: http://www.gemswater.org/

Water and Sanitation Program (WSP): http://www.wsp.org/

The World Bank Group, Water Supply & Sanitation: http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/water/

World Water Council: http://www.worldwatercouncil.org/

Drinking Water Supplies

IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre: http://www.irc.nl

NGO Forum for Drinking Water Supply & Sanitation: Click here

Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council: http://www.wsscc.org

World Health Organisation (WHO), Water, Sanitation and Health: http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/en/

Water and Health Problems

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Parasitic Diseases. Parasitic Pathways: Drinking Water: Learn More

Diarrhea Page, Rehydration Project: http://rehydrate.org/diarrhoea/index.html

Pan-American Health Organization, Basic Country Health Profiles for the Americas: http://www.paho.org/english/sha/profiles.htm

Water and Environmental Health at London and Loughborough: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/well/index.htm

Water and Sanitation Resources

International Development Research Centre: http://www.idrc.ca/

Inter-American Water Resources Network: http://www.iwrn.net/

International Institute for Sustainable Development: http://www.iisd.org/

International Office of Water: http://www.oieau.fr/

One: one.org

Sanitation Connection: http://www.sanicon.net/

Stockholm International Water Institute: http://www.siwi.org/

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Water Portal: http://www.unesco.org/water/

UNICEF Water Environment & Sanitation: http://www.unicef.org/wes/

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Partners in Drinking Water Protection: http://www.epa.gov/safewater/links.html

Water Conserve - Water Conservation Portal: http://www.waterconserve.org/

Water Webster: http://www.waterwebster.com/

World Water Assessment Programme: http://www.unesco.org/water/wwap

Public Education: LetCleanWatersFlow.com

Discovery School - Water Water Everywhere lesson plan: Learn More

The Globe Program Educators' Corner: Learn More

Peace Corps: http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/

WaterAid Learn Zone: http://www.wateraid.org/uk/learn_zone/

University of Wisconsin - Extension: Give Water a Hand: http://www.uwex.edu/erc/gwah/

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water Games and Activities: http://www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/index.html