DRINKING WATER
CONTAMINATED BY SEWAGE EFFLUENT AND SLUDGE BIOSOLIDS
What's in your water
as recently as 1998, close to 1,000 community drinking water supply systems (affecting about 18 million people)
violated the EPA's Surface Water Treatment Rule. The rule was aimed at guarding against viruses, as well as a
microorganism known as giardia, in drinking water supplies. Furthermore, between 1999 and 2001, four of five
wastewater treatment plants and chemical and industrial facilities in the United States polluted waterways beyond what
their federal permits allowed
DRINKING WATER -- BACTERIA -- Parasites -- Viruses
EFFECTIVENESS OF WATER TREATMENT PROCESSES OF A FEW WATERBORNE BACTERIA
Dental Diseases Caused by Bacteria in Drinking Water?
Associated Press Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water
What's in your water
Tests were conducted in 35 of 62 major U.S. watersheds, the natural sources of most of the nation's water
supply. Pharmaceuticals were detected in 28 of them.
Southern California Watershed: Anti-epileptic and anti-anxiety medications
San Francisco: Sex hormone
Philadelphia: 56 pharmaceuticals or pharmaceutical byproducts, including medicines used to treat pain,
infection, high cholesterol, asthma, epilepsy, mental illness and heart problems
New York City: Heart medication, infection fighters, estrogen, anti-convulsants, a mood stabilizer and a
tranquilizer
New Orleans: Pain reliever naproxen, sex hormone estrone and the byproduct of an anti-cholesterol drug
Washington, D.C.: Six pharmaceuticals
Northern New Jersey: Metabolized angina medicine and the mood-stabilizing drug carbamazepine
Upstate New York Watershed: Caffeine
Worker gets probation for false E. coli test reports
AP Water Probe Prompts Senate Hearings
Area Tap Water Has Traces of Medicines Tests Find 6 Drugs, Caffeine in D.C., Va.