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Municipal Water

Biological Hazards

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
		2002 CFR Title 40--Protection of Environment, Chapter I--Environmental Protection Agency, Part 141--National Primary Drinking Water Regulations Section of the Code of Federal Regulations that covers primary drinking water regulations. Includes maximum contaminant levels, sampling and analytical requirements, monitoring requirements, and more. (more) Publication Year: 2002	Jan 14, 2004
	Regional Office for Europe, World Health Organization	2nd Meeting of the Signatories to the Protocol on Water and Health This page provides access to the meeting report and summary, working papers, and other meeting documents from this meeting held July 2-4, 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland. (more) Event Dates: Wednesday, July 2, 2003 - Friday, July 4, 2003 Publication Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2003	Jun 18, 2003
	Working Group on Water and Health	3rd Meeting of the Working Group on Water and Health Proceedings, including the meeting report and working papers, from this meeting held March 11-12, 2004 in Budapest, Hungary on issues related to the Protocol on Water and Health and other related topics. Includes discussion of water- related disease surveillance, antibacterial resistance, and more. Also available is the document "Establishing a compliance review mechanism under the 1999 Protocol on Water and Health". (more) Event Dates: Thursday, March 11, 2004 - Friday, March 12, 2004 Publication Date: Thursday, March 11, 2004	Mar 4, 2004
	North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation	Children's Health and the Environment in North America: A First Report on Available Indicators and Measures Report on indicators from Canada, the U.S., and Mexico related to children's environmental health. Topics covered include pesticide residues, waterborne diseases, and more. Appendices include "Overview of Recommended Indicators from the CEC Council," "153 Matched Chemicals," and more. Individual country reports are also available. (more) Deadline: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 Publication Year: 2006	Jan 31, 2006
	Kourenti, Christina; Heckeroth, Anja; Tenter, Astrid; Karanis, Panagiotis	Development and Application of Different Methods for the Detection of Toxoplasma gondii in Water Report of a study that evaluated centrifugation and flocculation (a method used by water treatment plants) as methods for recovery of Toxoplasma oocysts from water samples. (more) Publication Month: January 2003	Aug 5, 2003
	Environmental Protection Agency	Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List 2; Notice Notice regarding EPA's Draft Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List 2, including discussion of approach and rationale, recommendations from the National Research Council for developing future Contaminant Candidate Lists, and more. (more) Publication Date: Friday, April 2, 2004	Apr 5, 2004
	Drinking Water Systems Center, NSF International	Drinking Water Systems Center Verification Reports & Statements Verification statements for drinking water systems. Systems were tested for arsenic, Cryptosporidium/Giardia or Cryptosporidium-/Giardia-sized particles, viruses, bacteria and bacteria-sized particles, and disinfection by-products. (more)	Jul 12, 2005
	World Health Organization	Emerging Issues in Water and Infectious Disease Publication that discusses issues associated with water and infectious disease and highlights WHO publications that provide more in-depth discussion of these issues. Sections include "Emerging waterborne pathogens," "Scientific advances in water microbiology," and more. (more) Publication Year: 2003	Sep 14, 2004
	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA and DHS Announce New Cooperative Center of Excellence for Research on Microbial Risk Assessment for Homeland Security Release regarding the new Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment (CAMRA) based at Michigan State University. The center will focus on filling gaps in microbial risk assessment related to bioterrorism risk from environmental exposures. (more) Deadline: Monday, December 5, 2005 Publication Date: Monday, October 24, 2005	Dec 5, 2005
	Hutton, Guy; Haller, Laurence	Evaluation of the Costs and Benefits of Water and Sanitation Improvements at the Global Level Report of a study on the estimated costs and benefits of improved water and sanitation services. Includes evaluation of health and economic benefits. Appendix sections include "WHO world sub-regions," "Detailed cost-benefit results under projected population growth until 2015," and "Detailed cost-benefit results under constant population size from year 2000 until 2015". (more) Publication Year: 2004	Apr 27, 2004

Chemical Hazards

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
		2002 CFR Title 40--Protection of Environment, Chapter I--Environmental Protection Agency, Part 141--National Primary Drinking Water Regulations Section of the Code of Federal Regulations that covers primary drinking water regulations. Includes maximum contaminant levels, sampling and analytical requirements, monitoring requirements, and more. (more) Publication Year: 2002	Jan 14, 2004
	Risk Assessment Program, Toxicology and Risk Analysis Section, Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy	Chemical-Specific Toxicity Values Database of chemical-specific toxicity values derived from the EPA's Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), the Health Effects Assessment Summary Tables (HEAST), and other sources. You may retrieve data for oral, inhalation, or dermal pathways on reference dose, reference concentration, unit risk, and slope factor. You may also retrieve a variety of other chemical-specific factors, including beef transfer coefficient, fish bioaccumulation coefficient, and milk transfer coefficient. You can format the output as an onscreen table, a tab delimited file, or a comma delimited file. (more)	Aug 27, 2002
	North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation	Children's Health and the Environment in North America: A First Report on Available Indicators and Measures Report on indicators from Canada, the U.S., and Mexico related to children's environmental health. Topics covered include pesticide residues, waterborne diseases, and more. Appendices include "Overview of Recommended Indicators from the CEC Council," "153 Matched Chemicals," and more. Individual country reports are also available. (more) Deadline: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 Publication Year: 2006	Jan 31, 2006
	Environmental Protection Agency	Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List 2; Notice Notice regarding EPA's Draft Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List 2, including discussion of approach and rationale, recommendations from the National Research Council for developing future Contaminant Candidate Lists, and more. (more) Publication Date: Friday, April 2, 2004	Apr 5, 2004
	Office of Water, Environmental Protection Agency	Drinking Water Standards and Health Advisories This page provides access to EPA's Drinking Water Standards and Health Advisories tables that give standards (MCLG, MCL), health advisories (RfD, DWEL, lifetime, and cancer risk, as well as one-day and ten-day values for a 10-kg child), and cancer group for chemicals. (more)	Jul 23, 2003
	Risk Assessment Program, Toxicology and Risk Analysis Section, Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy	Ecological Benchmarks Database of ecotoxicological screening benchmarks for surface water, sediment, and surface soil applicable to aquatic organisms, soil invertebrates, and terrestrial plants. (more)	Aug 30, 2002
	Risk Assessment Program, Toxicology and Risk Analysis Section, Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy	Established Regulatory Limits for Surface Water and Groundwater Databases of established chemical-specific regulatory limits for surface water and groundwater are available at the federal level as well as at the state level for Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington. (more)	Aug 27, 2002
	National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency	Example Exposure Scenarios This document presents exposure scenarios for different exposure pathways and demonstrates the application of data from the Exposure Factors Handbook in estimating exposures. For each scenario, an exposure algorithm, exposure factor inputs, calculations, and exposure characterization and uncertainties are presented. Ingestion pathways described include contaminated homegrown vegetables, homegrown tomatoes, beef, dairy products, drinking water, fish, and breastmilk. (more) Publication Month: April 2004	Sep 16, 2004
	Environmental Protection Agency	Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pollutants Under the Clean Water Act; National Primary Drinking Water Regulations; and National Secondary Drinking Water Regulations; Analysis and Sampling Procedures; Proposed Rule Proposed rule to change analysis and sampling procedures in wastewater regulations and to change methods in drinking water analysis and monitoring. There is also a request for comments on "EPA Microbiological Alternate Test Procedure (ATP) Protocol for Drinking Water, Ambient Water, and Wastewater Monitoring Methods". (more) Publication Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2004	Apr 8, 2004
	Risk Assessment Program, Toxicology and Risk Analysis Section, Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy	Human Health Risk Exposure Model This tool uses exposure concentrations to calculate doses and risks. The equations for performing this analysis are also available for different exposure scenarios. Exposure through consumption of fish can be found in the RECREATIONAL LAND USE; Exposure to Contaminants in Water section, and exposure through the consumption of homegrown produce can be found in the RESIDENTIAL LAND USE; Exposure to Contaminants in Water section. (more)	Aug 30, 2002

Pesticides

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	Environmental Protection Agency	1,3-Dichloropropene Risk Assessment; Notice of Availability Notice regarding the availability of a human health risk assessment for 1,3-dichloropropene. The comment period has been extended in 70 FR 53794. (more) Deadline: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 Publication Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2005	Jul 14, 2005
	Environmental Protection Agency	2,4-D; Pesticide Tolerance Final rule that establishes a residue tolerance for 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid in or on hop, soybean, and wild rice. Includes discussion of the aggregate risk assessment and determination of safety. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2005	Jul 28, 2005
	Environmental Protection Agency	2,4-DB (4-2, 4-dichlorophenoxy) butyric acid and 2,4-DB-DMAS (Dimethylamine 4-2, 4-dichlorophenoxy) butyrate; Availability of Risk Assessments (Interim Process) This notice describes how to access the human health and environmental fate and effects risk assessments and related documents for 2,4-DB and 2,4-DB-DMAS, a pesticide with tolerances for alfalfa, clover, peppermint, spearmint, soybean, peanut, trefoil, and meat byproducts of cattle, goats, hogs, horses, and sheep. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2004	Jul 28, 2004
	Environmental Protection Agency	3-Hexen-1-ol, (3Z)-; Exemption from the Requirement of a Tolerance Final rule that "establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of cis -3-hexen-1-ol also known as leaf alcohol or 3-hexen-1-ol, (3Z)- (CAS Reg. No. 928-96-1) when used as an inert ingredient - an odorant or alerting agent in certain pesticide formulations." Includes discussion of the determination of safety. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2005	Jun 2, 2005
	Environmental Protection Agency	Acetamiprid; Pesticide Tolerance Final rule that "establishes a tolerance for residues of acetamiprid in or on tuberous and corm vegetables." Includes discussion of the aggregate risk assessment and determination of safety. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2005	Apr 21, 2005
	Environmental Protection Agency	Buprofezin; Pesticide Tolerance Final rule that establishes residue tolerances for buprofezin in or on a variety of commodities. Includes discussion of the aggregate risk assessment and determination of safety. (more) Publication Date: Friday, April 8, 2005	Apr 21, 2005
	Environmental Protection Agency	Certain Ethylenebisdithiocarbamates (EBDCs) and Ethylene Thiourea (ETU); Risk Assessments and Preliminary Risk Reduction Options (Phase 3 of 4-Phase Process); Notice of Availability Notice regarding the availability of risk assessments, preliminary risk reduction options, and other related documents for mancozeb, maneb, metiram, and ethylene thiourea. The notice also opens a comment period for these documents. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, November 24, 2004	Dec 2, 2004
	North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation	Children's Health and the Environment in North America: A First Report on Available Indicators and Measures Report on indicators from Canada, the U.S., and Mexico related to children's environmental health. Topics covered include pesticide residues, waterborne diseases, and more. Appendices include "Overview of Recommended Indicators from the CEC Council," "153 Matched Chemicals," and more. Individual country reports are also available. (more) Deadline: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 Publication Year: 2006	Jan 31, 2006
	Environmental Protection Agency	Chlorimuron Ethyl; Tolerance Reassessment Decision for Low Risk Pesticide; Notice of Availability Notice regarding the availability of EPA's Tolerance Reassessment Decision, related risk assessments, and other documents related to chlorimuron ethyl. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2004	Oct 21, 2004
	Pesticide Risk Assessment Peer Review Unit, European Food Safety Authority	Conclusion Regarding the Peer Review of the Pesticide Risk Assessment of the Active Substance Dimethenamid Conclusion regarding the peer review of the risk assessment for dimethenamid. Includes discussion of the consumer risk assessment and proposed MRLs for maize grains and sugar beets, studies to be generated, areas of concern, and more. Appendices include "List of endpoints for the active substance and the representative formulation" and more. The Draft Assessment Report and Peer Review Report are provided as background documents. (more) Deadline: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 Publication Date: Monday, January 23, 2006	Feb 14, 2006





Contaminants

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
		2,4,6-Tribromophenol and Other Simple Brominated Phenols Concise International Chemical Assessment Document (CICAD) 66. Summary of potential human health and environmental effects from 2,4,6-tribromopheol and other simple brominated phenols. (more) Deadline: Thursday, December 15, 2005 Publication Year: 2005	Dec 15, 2005
	Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, Office of Water, Environmental Protection Agency	Accessing EPA's Drinking Water Data in SDWIS/FED This site provides information on accessing EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System/Federal Version (SDWIS/FED) data. The database contains information for each state searchable by county, water system, or population, and provides information on water source type, population served, health based violations, monitoring and reporting or other violations, and other information collected under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Click on Safe Drinking Water Information System/Federal Version (SDWIS/FED) in the left navigation bar to access documentation for this data. (more)	Jul 23, 2002
	Dearfield, Kerry L., et al.	Acrylamide: A Review of Its Genotoxicity and an Assessment of Heritable Genetic Risk Review of acrylamide genotoxicity studies and report of an assessment of the heritable genetic risk from acrylamide. Subscription or purchase may be required to access the full text. (more) Publication Month: August 1995	Mar 12, 2004
	Specialized Information Services, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health	Arsenic and Human Health Guide to Internet resources related to arsenic and human health, including links to government information sources, sources from the National Library of Medicine, sources on drinking water standards for arsenic, and more. (more)	Nov 5, 2003
	Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services	ATSDR's Work at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina Information on ATSDR's efforts to determine if drinking water polluted with TCE (trichloroethylene) or PCE (perchloroethylene) has led to the development of childhood cancers or birth defects in children. (more)	Nov 18, 2003
	Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency	Availability of Hazard Identification Materials for 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene and Announcement of the Carcinogen Identification Committee Meeting Hazard identification document for 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene. Attachments include "Public Health Goals for Chemicals in Drinking Water. 1,2,4- Trichlorobenzene," "relevant sections of a final report submitted to the U.S. EPA entitled: '104-Week Dietary Carcinogenicity Study with 1,2,4 Trichlorobenzene in Mice,'" "relevant sections of a final report submitted to the U.S. EPA entitled: '104- Week Dietary Carcinogenicity Study with 1,2,4 Trichlorobenzene in Rats,'" and "data submitted under the Toxic Release Inventory program for the years 1999 to 2002 for 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene". (more) Deadline: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 Publication Date: Friday, May 13, 2005	May 24, 2005
	Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency	Availability of Hazard Identification Materials for Perchlorate and Announcement of the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee Meeting Access to the document "Evidence on the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicity of Perchlorate" and its attachments related to the hazard identification of perchlorate. The final hazard identification document is available here. (more) Deadline: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 Publication Date: Friday, May 20, 2005	May 27, 2005
	Cavalli, S.; Polesello, S.; Saccani, G.	Determination of Acrylamide in Drinking Water by Large-volume Direct Injection and Ion-exclusion Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Report of a study on a new method for the detection of acrylamide in drinking water. Subscription or purchase may be required to access the full text. (more) Publication Date: Friday, June 11, 2004	Jul 20, 2004
	Drinking Water Systems Center, NSF International	Drinking Water Systems Center Verification Reports & Statements Verification statements for drinking water systems. Systems were tested for arsenic, Cryptosporidium/Giardia or Cryptosporidium-/Giardia-sized particles, viruses, bacteria and bacteria-sized particles, and disinfection by-products. (more)	Jul 12, 2005
	Environmental Protection Agency	Envirofacts Data Warehouse This database provides access to environmental information on a variety of topics, including waste, water, toxics, air, land, and more. Water info includes information on water microbial and disinfection byproduct data by state from the Information Collections Rule (ICR) database. Toxics info includes information on toxic release facilities in a chosen area. (more)	Jul 23, 2002

Other Resources

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	Association of State Drinking Water Administrators	Association of State Drinking Water Administrators (ASDWA) Professional association for state drinking water programs. The website includes links to policy rules and regulations on a variety of drinking water issues. (more)	Jun 19, 2002
	Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health (4th : 2004 : Budapest, Hungary)	Children's Environment and Health Action Plan for Europe This document discusses the management of risks to children's health from environmental hazards and presents regional priority goals and related actions for protecting children's health from environmental hazards. (more) Publication Date: Friday, June 25, 2004	Jul 5, 2004
	National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency	Child-Specific Exposure Factors Handbook (Interim Report) Summary of statistical data on factors used in assessing childrens' exposure to chemicals. Includes data on consumption of drinking water, foods, and breast milk, body weight, lifetime, and more. (more) Publication Month: September 2002	Sep 17, 2004
	Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine	Dietary Reference Intakes for Water, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride, and Sulfate This report presents Dietary Reference Intakes for water, potassium, sodium, chloride, and sulfate, including Adequate Intakes for total water, potassium, sodium, and chloride and Tolerable Upper Intake Levels for sodium and chloride. Includes discussion of the methods used to derive these values, including risk assessment methodology used in deriving Tolerable Upper Intake Levels, and of applications of the Dietary Reference Intakes. (more) Publication Year: 2004	Feb 13, 2004
	Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, Office of Water, Environmental Protection Agency	Drinking Water Research Information Network Searchable database of projects in EPA and other government, academic, international, and other organizations that relate to drinking water. (more)	May 13, 2004
	WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme on Water Supply and Sanitation	Meeting the MDG Drinking-Water and Sanitation Target: A Mid-Term Assessment of Progress Report on progress towards meeting the Millenium Development Goals related to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. Includes discussion of coverage of improved drinking water sources, disparities in coverage, and more. (more) Publication Month: August 2004	Aug 31, 2004
	NSF International	NSF International Non-profit organization that develops quality standards and training related to health, food, water, and environmental quality. (more)	Apr 26, 2002
	U.S. Government Accountability Office	Protection of Chemical and Water Infrastructure: Federal Requirements, Actions of Selected Facilities, and Remaining Challenges Report of a study of security efforts in the chemical and water sectors. Includes discussion of federal security requirements and related agency actions, actions taken and obstacles faced by water systems, the use of a risk management framework, and more. Appendices include "Scope and Methodology," "Number of Community Water Systems," and more. (more) Publication Month: March 2005	May 9, 2005