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A Survey of the Quality of Water Drawn from Domestic Wells in Nine Midwest States [PDF 760 KB] – 1994 survey to assess the presence of bacteria and chemicals in states severely affected by flooding in 1993
Building Drinking Water Capacity in Native Alaskan Villages [DOC 395 KB] – new ways to coordinate state and federal agency efforts to develop capacity in the villages and ways to improve communication between the drinking water program and villages. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.
Healthy Housing Reference Manual – revision provides information about the impact of housing on health and safety and includes a chapter on rural water supplies and water-quality issues
Implementing a Safe Drinking Water Program for Private Individual Water Wells [DOC 328 KB] – program designed to enforce standards to prevent possible waterborne diseases in private individual water wells. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.
Mutual Aid Agreement for Water and Sewer Utilities [DOC 420 KB] – share ideas and resources and establish communication between the various water and sewer systems in the north and south ends of Okaloosa County, Florida. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.
New Deliverables for Virginia’s Onsite Sewage and Water Supply Programs: A Roadmap for Changing Services [DOC 733 KB] – used a business model to assure that residential and commercial buildings not served by public sewer have adequate facilities for water and sewer and to focus agency resources on direct service delivery. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.
Parasitic Pathways – information about healthy drinking water
Public Health Issues Associated With Small Drinking Water Systems Not Regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act [PDF 65 KB] – environmental public health concerns associated with small (i.e., not federally regulated) drinking water systems
Public Health Protection for Private Unregulated Water Systems [DOC 473 KB] – nonregulatory private water education program to help people understand how to operate their water supply system and reduce risks associated with water consumption. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.
Reducing Exposure to Arsenic in Drinking Water [DOC 300 KB] – project to reduce exposure to arsenic in drinking water throughout Minnesota. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.
Safe Water System – water quality intervention using technologies appropriate for the developing world to make water and water storage safe
South Bass Island Assessment [PDF 1 MB] – environmental health assessment in 2004 identified potential sources of water contamination on Lake Erie's South Bass Island
Surveillance for Waterborne Disease and Outbreaks Associated with Drinking Water and Water Not Intended for Drinking — United States, 2005–2006; MMWR. – summary of 28 waterborne-disease outbreaks (WBDOs) during January 2005–December 2006 and four previously unreported WBDOs from 1979–2002
Surveillance for Waterborne Disease and Outbreaks Associated with Drinking Water and Water Not Intended for Drinking — United States, 2003–2004; MMWR. – summary of the surveillance system that collects and reports data related to occurrences and causes of waterborne disease and outbreaks (WBDOs)
Waterborne Illnesses – information about waterborne diseases
Water Security – This section from Emergency and Terrorism Preparedness for Environmental Health Practitioners provides information on the protection of water supplies as well as on responding to contamination threats and incidents.
Copper in Drinking Water [external link] (National Academy of Sciences Commission on Life Sciences) – document about copper in drinking water
Guidelines and Requirements for Safe Handling of Drinking Water, Ice, and Dispensers [external link] (Maricopa County, Arizona) – safe handling of drinking water, ice, and dispensers
Liquid Assets 2000: America's Water Resources at a Turning Point [external link] (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) – snapshot of the economic value of clean water, problems faced in the new millennium, and actions to protect and restore the nation's water resources
National Contaminant Occurrence Database [external link] (NCOD) (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) – database containing information about the occurrences of contaminants in public water systems
Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) [external link] (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) – federal law that ensures the quality of Americans' drinking water
Safe Drinking Water is Essential [external link] (National Academy of Sciences' Koshland Science Museum) – examines the state of the world's water supply (sources, treatment, and distribution of drinking water) and what can be done to improve it
Safer Water [external link] (Rollins School of Public Health) – efforts to bring safe water to the developing world
Toxic Substances Hydrology Program [external link] (U.S. Geological Survey) – provides objective scientific information on environmental contamination to improve characterization and management of contaminated sites, to protect human and environmental health, and to reduce potential future contamination problems