Agua4All: Providing Safe Drinking Water in Rural California Communities

Safe drinking water standards for First Nations communities.

The Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 and Its Role in Providing Access to Safe Drinking Water in the United States.

In 1974, President Gerald Ford signed into law the Safe Drinking Water Act, the first piece of legislation of its kind to provide a comprehensive regulatory framework for overseeing the nation's drinking water supply. The law has proven instrumental in setting standards for ensuring that the US population can access drinking water that is safe. However, the law delegates much of its monitoring ...

Water Quality in Selected Small Drinking Water Systems of Missouri Rural Communities

Small drinking water treatment systems (serving <10,000 population) in rural communities frequently encounter multiple challenges in water quality and federal regulatory compliance, especially the disinfection byproduct (DBP) regulations, due to source water variations, limited resources, and aging infrastructures. Unlike most studies on the DBP control using synthetic water in laboratory setti...

Process Efficiency in Achieving Safe Drinking Water

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Physicians providing leadership for rural communities.

Goldsboro Pediatrics provides community leadership by targeting adverse child outcomes such as unplanned pregnancy, chronic mental health disorders, tobacco addiction, child abuse or neglect, school failure or drop out, obesity, and type 2 diabetes. Physicians can address longterm child outcomes during office visits, but we need to collaborate with other groups to assure success. We must provid...