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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Water We Drink | |
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| Natural Water | |
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| Water and the Public Health | |
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| References | |
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| Water Pollution | |
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| Human Waste and Pollution | |
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| Industrial Pollution | |
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| Wastewater Control and Treatment | |
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| Nonpoint Sources of Water Pollution | |
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| Pollution Sources and Water Quality | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| Water Protection | |
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| The Basics of Water Supply | |
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| Basic Water Treatment | |
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| Beyond Basic Water Treatment | |
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| An Issue of Equality | |
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| Chemical Monitoring and Warnings for Regulated Pollutants | |
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| The National Drinking Water Contaminant Occurrence Database | |
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| Unregulated Pollutants and Monitoring Regulations | |
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| Setting New Drinking Water Standards | |
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| Why Consumers Should Be Concerned | |
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| Approaches to Mitigate Chemical Exposure | |
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| Water Pollution and Risk | |
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| References | |
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| Living with the Risk of Polluted Water | |
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| The Burden of Proof | |
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| Permissible Pollution | |
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| The Dose Makes the Poison | |
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| Basic Concepts of Dose | |
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| Mechanism of Toxicity | |
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| Biotransformation and Detoxification | |
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| Toxicity and Defining Standards | |
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| Timing Is Everything | |
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| Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals | |
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| Pharmaceutical Pollutants | |
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| Pharmaceuticals Detected in the Environment | |
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| Living with Risk | |
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| Population, Pollution, Risk, and Precaution | |
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| The Risk Assessment Process | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| Managing Risk and Drinking Water Quality | |
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| Learning from the Past and Present | |
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| Risk and Economics | |
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| An Alternative Approach | |
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| Consumer-Based Protection | |
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| Potential Action by the Water Industry | |
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| Potential Governmental Actions | |
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| An Alternative Risk Management Program | |
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| References | |
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| Average Elemental Abundance in the Earth's Crust | |
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| Chemical Compounds with Established Water Quality Criteria-1952 | |
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| USEPA National Recommended Water Quality Criteria for Freshwater and Human Consumption of Water + Organism: 2002 | |
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| Dow Industrial Chemicals, Solvents and Dyes in 1938 | |
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| USEPA List of Priority Pollutants | |
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| Summary of Shallow Groundwater Data | |
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| Organic Chemicals Found in Landfill Leachate and Gas | |
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| Unregulated Pollutants Discharged to or Identified in Water Resources | |
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| Chemicals Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer or Reproductive Toxicity | |
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| Regulated Pesticides in Food with Residue Tolerances | |
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| Comparison of Chemicals Required to be Monitored in Groundwater by RCRA | |
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| General Drinking Water Monitoring and Warning Requirements (as of 2002) | |
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| National Drinking Water Contaminant Occurrence Database Data on Primary Water Quality Standards (May 18, 2001) | |
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| National Drinking Water Contaminant Occurrence Database: Data on Unregulated Compounds | |
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| Examples of Bottled Mineral Water Chemistry | |
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| Examples of Bottled Water Chemistry | |
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| Trace Element Analysis of Mineral Waters (ppb) That Appear in Either Appendix 3-4 or Appendix 3-5 | |
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| Glossary of Terms Adapted from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) (1993) | |
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| Chemical Examples on the Toxicology of Drinking Water Standards | |
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| Suspected Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals | |
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| U.S. Geological Survey Target Compounds, National Reconnaissance of Emerging Contaminants in U.S. Streams (2000) | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |