Drinking Water
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Updated November 2011
Backer LC, Tosta N. Unregulated drinking water initiative for environmental surveillance and public health. J Environ Health. 2011;73(7):31-2.
Bouchard MF, Sauvé S, Barbeau B, Legrand M, Brodeur M-È, Bouffard T, et al. Intellectual impairment in school-age children exposed to manganese from drinking water. Environ Health Perspect. 2010 [ahead of print; online 20 September 2010].
Additional Topic(s): Chemical Hazards; Children’s Environmental Health
Bouchard MF. Manganese in drinking water: Bouchard responds. Environ Health Perspect. 2011;119(6).
Brubaker E. A bridge over troubled waters: Alternative financing and delivery of water and wastewater services. Toronto, ON: C D Howe Institute; 2011 May.
Bull RJ, Reckhow DA, Li X, Humpage AR, Joll C, Hrudey SE. Potential carcinogenic hazards of non-regulated disinfection by-products: Haloquinones, halo-cyclopentene and cyclohexene derivatives, N-halamines, halonitriles, and heterocyclic amines. Toxicology. 2011;286(1-3):1-19.
Burkhardt-Holm P. Endocrine disruptors and water quality: A state-of-the-art review. Int J Water Resour Dev. 2010;26(3):477-93.
Additional Topic(s): Chemical Hazards
Carrière A, Prévost M, Zamyadi A, Chevalier P, Barbeau B. Vulnerability of Quebec drinking-water treatment plants to cyanotoxins in a climate change context. J Water Health. 2010;8(3):455-65.
Additional Topic(s): Climate Change
Chang C-C, Chen C-C, Wu D-C, Yang C-Y. Nitrates in drinking water and the risk of death from rectal cancer: Does hardness in drinking water matter? J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2010;73(19):1337-47.
Additional Topic(s): Chemical Hazards
Chen H, Copes R. Manganese in drinking water and intellectual impairment in school-age children. Environ Health Perspect. 2011;119(6).
Chu W, Gao N, Deng Y, Templeton MR, Yin D. Impacts of drinking water pretreatments on the formation of nitrogenous disinfection by-products. Bioresour Technol. 2011(0).
Cool G, Rodriguez MJ, Bouchard C, Levallois P, Joerin F. Evaluation of the vulnerability to contamination of drinking water systems for rural regions in Quebec, Canada. J Environ Planning Manage. 2010;53(5):615-38.
Additional Topic(s): Environmental Planning
Dankovich TA, Gray DG. Bactericidal paper impregnated with silver nanoparticles for point-of-use water treatment. Environ Sci Tech. 2011;45(5):1992-8.
Federal-Provincial-Territorial Committee on Drinking Water. Dichloromethane in drinking water (document for public comment). Ottawa, ON: Health Canada; 2010 June.
Additional Topic(s): Chemical Hazards
Figueira V, Vaz-Moreira I, Silva M, Manaia CM. Diversity and antibiotic resistance of Aeromonas spp. in drinking and waste water treatment plants. Water Res. 2011;45(17):5599-611.
Additional Topic(s): Liquid Waste
Girones R, Ferrús MA, Alonso JL, Rodriguez-Manzano J, Calgua B, de Abreu Corrêa A, et al. Molecular detection of pathogens in water – The pros and cons of molecular techniques. Water Res. 2010;44(15):4325-39.
Additional Topic(s): Communicable & Infectious Diseases
Grazuleviciene R, Nieuwenhuijsen MJ, Vencloviene J, Kostopoulou-Karadanelli M, Krasner SW, Danileviciute A, et al. Individual exposures to drinking water trihalomethanes, low birth weight and small for gestational age risk: a prospective Kaunas cohort study. Environ Health. 2011;10:32-.
Haas AJ, Gibbons D, Dangel C, Allgeier S. Automated surveillance of 911 call data for detection of possible water contamination incidents. Int J Health Geogr. 2011;10:22-.
Hoppe BO, Harding AK, Staab J, Counter M. Private well testing in Oregon from real estate transactions: an innovative approach toward a state-based surveillance system. Public Health Rep. 2011;126(1):107-15.
Izquierdo F, Castro Hermida JA, Fenoy S, Mezo M, González-Warleta M, Aguila Cd. Detection of microsporidia in drinking water, wastewater and recreational rivers. Water Res. 2011;45(16):4837-43.
Jalba DI, Cromar NJ, Pollard SJT, Charrois JW, Bradshaw R, Hrudey SE. Safe drinking water: Critical components of effective inter-agency relationships. Environ Int. 2010;36(1):51-9.
Kot M, Castleden H, Gagnon GA. Unintended consequences of regulating drinking water in rural Canadian communities: Examples from Atlantic Canada. Health Place. 2011;17(5):1030-7.
Lechtenbohmer S, Altmann M, Capito S, Matra Z, Weindrorf W, Zittel W. Impacts of shale gas and shale oil extraction on the environment and on human health. Brussels, Belgium: European Parliament's Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety; 2011.NEW!
Legay C, Rodriguez MJ, Sadiq R, Sérodes JB, Levallois P, Proulx F. Spatial variations of human health risk associated with exposure to chlorination by-products occurring in drinking water. J Environ Manage. 2011;92(3):892-901.
Li N, Wang D, Zhou Y, Ma M, Li J, Wang Z. Dibutyl phthalate contributes to the thyroid receptor antagonistic activity in drinking water processes. Environ Sci Tech. 2010;44(17):6863-8.
Lisabeth LD, Ahn HJ, Chen JJ, Sealy-Jefferson S, Burke JF, Meliker JR. Arsenic in drinking water and stroke hospitalizations in Michigan. Stroke. 2010;41(11):2499-504.
Additional Topic(s): Chemical Hazards
Manuel J. EPA tackles fracking. Environ Health Perspect. 2010;118(5):A199.
McGuigan CF, Hamula CLA, Huang S, Gabos S, Le XC. A review on arsenic concentrations in Canadian drinking water. Environ Rev. 2010;18:291-307.
Additional Topic(s): Chemical Hazards
Mitka M. Drugs in drinking water. JAMA. 2011;306(14):1535.NEW!
Murray KE, Thomas SM, Bodour AA. Prioritizing research for trace pollutants and emerging contaminants in the freshwater environment. Environ Pollut. 2010;158(12):3462-71.
Additional Topic(s): Chemical Hazards
Neegan Burnside Ltd. Évaluation nationale des systèmes d’aqueduc et d’égout dans les collectivités des Premières nations – Rapport de synthèse national. Ottawa, ON: Affaires autochtones et Développement du Nord Canada; 2011 avril.
Neegan Burnside Ltd. Évaluation nationale des systèmes d’aqueduc et d’égout dans les collectivités des Premières nations – Rapports régionaux. Ottawa, ON: Affaires autochtones et Développement du Nord Canada; 2011 janvier.
Ontario Ministry of the Environment. Minister’s annual report on drinking water. Toronto, ON: Government of Ontario; 2011 Jul.
Osborn SG, Vengosh A, Warner NR, Jackson RB. Methane contamination of drinking water accompanying gas-well drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2011.
Additional Topic(s): Chemical Hazards
Palaniappan M, Gleick PH, Allen L, Cohen MJ, Christian-Smith J, Smith C. (Pacific Institute, Oakland, CA). Clearing the waters: A focus on water quality solutions. Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Environment Programme, Division of Environmental Policy Implementation; 2010 March.
Additional Topic(s): Environmental Planning
Pals JA, Ang JK, Wagner ED, Plewa MJ. Biological mechanism for the toxicity of haloacetic acid drinking water disinfection byproducts. Environ Sci Tech. 2011;45(13):5791-7.NEW!
Roberson JA. What's next after 40 years of drinking water regulations? Environ Sci Tech. 2011 Jan 1;45(1):154-60.
Sereshk R. Water-borne illness and injury: analysis of factors most significantly influencing beach water quality in the regional municipality of York. Toronto, ON: Ryerson University; 2010.
Storey MV, van der Gaag B, Burns BP. Advances in on-line drinking water quality monitoring and early warning systems. Water Res. 2011;45(2):741-7.
Struck S. Rainwater harvesting for non-potable use and evidence of risk posed to human health. Vancouver, BC: British Columbia Centre for Disease Control; 2011 Oct.
Sullivan MJ, Leavey S. Heavy metals in bottled natural spring water. J Environ Health. 2011;73(10):8-13.
Additional Topic(s): Chemical Hazards
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. National Primary Drinking Water Regulations; Announcement of the results of EPA’s review of existing drinking water standards and request for public comment and/or information on related issues. Fed Regist. 2010;75(59):74.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Fact sheet: Announcement of completion of EPA's second review of existing drinking water standards. Washington, DC: EPA; 2010.
Van Dyke MI, Morton VK, McLellan NL, Huck PM. The occurrence of Campylobacter in river water and waterfowl within a watershed in southern Ontario, Canada. J Appl Microbiol. 2010;109(3):1053-66.
Additional Topic(s): Communicable & Infectious Diseases
Washington Office of Drinking Water. Office of Drinking Water authority over operators and water systems. Olympia, WA: Washington State Department of Health, Division of Environmental Health, Office of Drinking Water; 2010.
WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation. Progress on sanitation and drinking water. 2010 update. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2010.
Additional Topic(s): Liquid Waste
World Health Organization. Pharmaceuticals in drinking water. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO; 2011.
Additional Topic(s): Chemical Hazards
Books
Cotruvo JA. Desalination technology : health and environmental impacts. Boca Raton; London: CRC Press ; IWA Pub.; 2010.
Guillot E, Loret J-F, Global Water Research Coalition. Waterborne pathogens: review for the drinking-water industry. London, NY: International Water Association Publishing; 2010.
Ontario Ministry of Long-Term Care. Operating procedures for non-regulated recreational water facilities guidance document. Ottawa, ON: Public Health Protection and Prevention Branch, Public Health Division; 2010 Apr.
Schijven JF, Teunis PFM, Rutjes SA, Bouwknegt M, de Roda Husman AM. QMRAspot: A tool for Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment from surface water to potable water. Water Res. 2011;45(17):5564-76.
Summerscales lM, McBean EA. Incorporation of the multiple barrier approach in drinking water risk assessment tools. J Water Health. 2011;9(2):349-60.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Guidance for public water systems on enhanced monitoring for Chromium-6 (Hexavalent Chromium) in drinking water. Washington, DC: EPA; 2011.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA’s recommendations for enhanced monitoring for Hexavalent Chromium (Chromium-6) in drinking water. Washington, DC: EPA; 2011.
Bond T, Huang J, Templeton MR, Graham N. Occurrence and control of nitrogenous disinfection by-products in drinking water – A review. Water Res. 2011;45(15):4341-54.
Bukowski JA. Review of the epidemiologic literature on residential exposure to perchloroethylene. Crit Rev Toxicol. 2011;41(9):771-82.
Additional Topic(s): Chemical Hazards
Islam N, Sadiq R, Rodriguez MJ, Francisque A. Reviewing source water protection strategies: A conceptual model for water quality assessment. Environ Rev. 2011;19:68-105.
McGuigan CF, Hamula CLA, Huang S, Gabos S, Le XC. A review on arsenic concentrations in Canadian drinking water. Environ Rev. 2010;18:291-307.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Fluoride risk assessment and relative source contribution. Washington, DC: EPA; 2011.