U.S. Drinking Water Challenges in the Twenty-First Century

U.S. Drinking Water Challenges in the Twenty-First Century

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U.S. Drinking Water Challenges in the Twenty-First Century

dc.contributor.author	Ford, Tim E
dc.contributor.author	Harrington, Winston
dc.contributor.author	Reichard, Eric G
dc.contributor.author	Epstein, Paul Robert
dc.contributor.author	Olson, Erik
dc.contributor.author	Levin, Ronnie
dc.date.accessioned	2012-02-03T04:48:05Z
dc.date.issued	2002
dc.identifier.citation	Levin, Ronnie B., Paul R. Epstein, Tim E. Ford, Winston Harrington, Erik Olson, and Eric G. Reichard. 2002. U.S. drinking water challenges in the twenty-first century. Environmental Health Perspectives 110(Suppl 1): 43-52.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0091-6765	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:8097013
dc.description.abstract	The access of almost all 270 million U.S. residents to reliable, safe drinking water distinguishes the United States in the twentieth century from that of the nineteenth century. The United States is a relatively water-abundant country with moderate population growth; nonetheless, current trends are sufficient to strain water resources over time, especially on a regional basis. We have examined the areas of public water infrastructure, global climate effects, waterborne disease (including emerging and resurging pathogens), land use, groundwater, surface water, and the U.S. regulatory history and its horizon. These issues are integrally interrelated and cross all levels of public and private jurisdictions. We conclude that U.S. public drinking water supplies will face challenges in these areas in the next century and that solutions to at least some of them will require institutional changes.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences	en_US
dc.relation.isversionof	http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/home.action	en_US
dc.relation.hasversion	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1241146/pdf/	en_US
dash.license	LAA
dc.subject	drinking water	en_US
dc.subject	federal regulations	en_US
dc.subject	global warming	en_US
dc.subject	groundwater	en_US
dc.subject	public infrastructure	en_US
dc.subject	surface water	en_US
dc.subject	waterborne disease	en_US
dc.title	U.S. Drinking Water Challenges in the Twenty-First Century	en_US
dc.type	Commentary or Review	en_US
dc.description.version	Version of Record	en_US
dc.relation.journal	Environmental Health Perspectives	en_US
dash.depositing.author	Epstein, Paul Robert
dc.date.available	2012-02-03T04:48:05Z
dash.affiliation.other	SPH^Exposure Epidemiology and Risk Program	en_US
dash.affiliation.other	HMS^Global Health and Social Medicine	en_US
dash.affiliation.other	HMS^Center for Health and the Global Environment	en_US