Overview
Environmental conditions greatly influence the relation between water
and human health ...more
Drinking Water and
Water-Related Issues
The public health issues surrounding water generally focus on drinking
water. This is an overview of CDC activities on water related
health issues ...more
Ground Water
While drinking water supplies in the United States are among the
safest in the world, even in the U.S., people still get sick from
their drinking water. This is a summary of CDC-initiated
prevention activities ...more
Harmful Algal Blooms
CDC is supporting surveillance programs, epidemiologic studies, and
laboratory research to further define the relation between exposure to
organisms involved in harmful algal blooms, such as Pfiesteria
piscicida, and human illness ...more
Concentrated Animal
Feeding Operations
Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are agricultural
facilities that house and feed a large number of animals in a confined
area for 45 days or more during any 12-month period. CDC is working
with states to define routes of exposure and potential human health
effects from exposures to wastes and residues from confined animal
feeding operations ...more
Data
Links to water-related data from various resources ...more
National
Environmental Public Health Tracking Program
Ongoing collection, integration, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination
of data on environmental hazards, exposures to those hazards, and health
effects that may be related to the exposures ...more
Radiation
Studies
General radiation facts, public health research, radon research ...more