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From:Journal of Environmental Health (Vol. 64, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedPublic water supplies are generally regulated under the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. [section] 300f, et seq). Usually, a state also regulates public drinking water, either by delegation from the U.S....
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From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 44, Issue 5)Flint has focused national attention on problems in drinking water and, more broadly, failings in our cooperative federalism regarding environmental regulation. This Article argues that, with respect to our federal...
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From:Journal of Environmental Health (Vol. 56, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedCurrent regulations and compliance for quality control of bottled and vended water in California are compared with that of the tap water industry in this research. Over 35% of the bottled water sold in the U.S. is...
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From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 229-230) Peer-ReviewedPurist Alert! You, there, clutching the plastic bottle of pure water in your hand, getting ready to slake your thirst. How would you feel to know that the bottled water you're getting ready to drink, might not be as...
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From:The Ohio Journal of Science (Vol. 103, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBOARD 11 Why do people pay for bottled water when they can get tap water for free, and why do people pay more for some bottled waters than for others? Are they paying for purity? The hypothesis suggested by these...
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From:Journal of Environmental Health (Vol. 73, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedUnregulated Drinking Water-- Resource or Hazard? The Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 ensures that most Americans are provided access to water that meets specific public health standards. For nearly 37 million...
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From:Regulation (Vol. 36, Issue 4)California's Proposition 65, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, was approved by state voters to address concerns about exposure to toxic chemicals. Proposition 65 requires the state to publish a...
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From:Contemporary Pediatrics (Vol. 24, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedConsumption of bottled and filtered water has increased dramatically in recent years. Some of these products lack fluoride, and bottled water labels are not required to disclose if or how much fluoride the bottle...
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From:Canadian Public Administration (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMany First Nations communities lack access to safe drinking water. In this article, we examine an under-appreciated tool for improving First Nations water security--governance--and develop a framework for guiding the...
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From:Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum (Vol. 19, Issue 1)If you board a ferry in bustling Hong Kong, cross to Lantau Island, and get on a local bus, the forests of cranes atop new buildings soon give way to forested hills, too steep for the construction boom to reach. An...
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From:Notre Dame Law Review (Vol. 96, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION The United States protects its citizens' right to bear arms, but clean water costs extra. Americans enjoy freedoms of religion and speech, vast economic opportunities, and a political voice, yet millions...
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From:Notre Dame Law Review (Vol. 93, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOfficials replaced safe water sources with contaminated water sources for lens of thousands of people living in Flint, Michigan, from April 2014 to October 2015. Overwhelming evidence indicates that the officials knew...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 326, Issue 7385) Peer-ReviewedThe Indian government has ordered a revision of national safety standards for drinking water after the Centre for Science and Environment in New Delhi found pesticide residues in bottled drinking water that were 36...
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From:The Ecologist (Vol. 30, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedClever marketing aside, the health benefits of the bottled water which is becoming more and more popular in the wealthy West are increasingly uncertain. A recent survey by the US National Resources Defense Council found...
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From:Regulation (Vol. 24, Issue 3)The Burnett-Hahn and Wilson analyses of the proposal to reduce the allowed concentration of arsenic in drinking water differ primarily on one issue: Is the dose-response relationship between arsenic concentrations and...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGastrointestinal infections of Aeromonas species are generally considered waterborne; for this reason, Aeromonas hydrophila has been placed on the United States Environmental Protection Agency Contaminant Candidate List...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 118, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedBy all accounts, disinfection of drinking water is one of the major public health triumphs of the 20th century. No human endeavor, however, is without risk; more than 30 years ago it was determined that chlorination of...
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From:LC-GC North America (Vol. 28, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBisphenol A (BPA) is widely used in high production volume manufacturing of polycarbonate plastics (for example, food containers and plastic bottles) and epoxy resins (1). Current studies evaluating the impact of BPA on...
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From:Veterinary World (Vol. 6, Issue 11)Aim: The study examined the effect of different drinking water sources on performance, carcass characteristics and haematology of broiler chickens. Materials and Methods: 63 unsexed day-old broiler chicks were...
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From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 222)"Feel free to smell them," said the waiter. "And to taste them." After a short pause, he said, "Make a memory of them." He was talking about--this may surprise you--little glasses of water, at a restaurant, writes Frank...