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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Private Drinking Water"”.
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Manganese in Private Drinking Water Systems: A Statewide Assessment of Virginia
Approximately 20% of Virginians consume water from private systems and roughly 80% have never tested the water quality or have only tested it once. Manganese (Mn) is a contaminant gaining attention due to its health risks. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates Mn in …
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Investigating Private Drinking Water Quality and Biomarkers of Associated Health Outcomes in Southwest Virginia
… do not have access to safely managed household drinking water. Recent research has demonstrated high rates of the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) violations in rural areas and heavy dependence on private systems that are not subject to SDWA monitoring …
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Geospatial Trends of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Incidence in Private Drinking Water in Virginia
… use has resulted in frequent environmental and drinking water detection, raising concerns about adverse human health effects associated with PFAS exposure. In response, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) has established mandatory monitoring campaigns and future maximum …
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Occurrence of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Private Water Supplies in Southwest Virginia
… tissue, and potential negative health impacts. Drinking water is suspected to be a primary source of human PFAS exposure, so the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) has set interim and final health advisories for several PFAS species that are applicable to municipal water supplies. …
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Strontium in Drinking Water: Assessing Strontium as a Drinking Water Contaminant in Virginia Private Wells
Approximately 80% of Virginians with private drinking water (PDW) sources are unaware of the quality of their drinking water. Strontium is a water quality contaminant gaining recognition at the federal level. At concentrations >1.5 mg/L, strontium substitutes calcium in the bones leading to bone …
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Fecal Matters: Fate and transport of traditional fecal indicator bacteria and source-tracking targets in septic drainfields
Between 1970 and 2010 almost one-third of drinking water related waterborne disease outbreaks reported to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were associated with systems dependent on untreated groundwater (i.e., most commonly, household wells). This is unsurprising, given that …
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Anticipation nationwide risks to drinking water : predicting local scale contamination of community supply wells by gasoline additives
… nationwide MTBE contamination of thousands of drinking water supply wells has been widely documented, reflecting enormous environmental and economic costs. Due to its abundance in gasoline, high aqueous solubility, and slow degradation rate in aquifers, MTBE has migrated in significant …
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Applications of Wastewater-Based Surveillance Within Rural and Unsewered Communities
Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) presents the opportunity to describe disease and health trends within human populations both more broadly and at a lower cost than clinical reporting. However, rural communities and 'unsewered' households, the latter of which typically treat household wastewater …
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Quantifying Potential Sources of Microbial Contamination in Household Drinking Water Samples
In Virginia, over one million households rely on private water supplies (e.g. well, spring, cistern). Previous literature acknowledges bacterial contamination in private water supplies as a significant public health concern in the United States. The present study tested private wells and springs in …
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Advancing Rural Public Health: From Drinking Water Quality and Health Outcome Meta-analyses to Wastewater-based Pathogen Monitoring
… and disproportionately high reliance on private, non-federally regulated, primary drinking water sources. Chronic conditions prevalent in rural communities such as diabetes and hypertension are frequently linked with longer duration and higher severity of symptoms than in urban areas; …