Ninety-five percent of the SJV population relies on this contaminated groundwater for drinking thus creating an exposure risk. Contaminant exposures are further compounded by the fact that with high costs of treatment, few water systems are able to afford mitigation, especially under-resourced ...
California already faces a drinking water crisis that disproportionately hits farmworkers and communities of color. More than 825,000 people spanning almost 400 water systems across the state don't have access to clean or reliable drinking water because of contamination from nitrates, heavy metals, a...
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The Get the Lead Out assessment by the California Public Interest Research Group gave the state a "C" grade this year for its "middling" policies to protect kids from lead-contaminated drinking water at schools. And although a 2017 law required schools built before 2010 to test their water s...
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We conducted our study in California’s San Joaquin Valley, one of the poorest regions in the country with some of the most contaminated drinking water sources in California [20], including high nitrate and high arsenic levels [21]. We focused on community water systems (CWSs), which are ...
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Drinking Water Treatment Residual Amendment Lowers Inorganic Arsenic Bioaccessibility in Contaminated soils: a Long-Term Study Inorganic arsenical pesticides were used widely in agriculture for a long time, leaving large tracts of farmlands and orchards contaminated with high level... R Nagar,D Sarkar,...
Drinking water for approximately one sixth of US households is obtained from private wells. These wells can become contaminated by pollutant chemicals or p... None - 《Pediatrics》 被引量: 85发表: 2009年 Drinking water and sanitation: progress in 73 countries in relation to socioeconomic indicato...
In recent years, however, concern has arisen about prolonged human exposure to sub-acute levels of arsenic by ingestion of contaminated drinking water supplies. In the Ganges Delta, for example, groundwater in which naturally occurring arsenic has been mobilized into solution from the aquifer ...