Assessing Innovative Arsenic Adsorbents
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According to a 1999 study by the National Academy of Sciences, arsenic in drinking water can cause several types of cancer, harm the central and peripheral nervous systems, cause serious skin problems, cause birth defects and reproductive problems. The USEPA published a Final Arsenic Rule in the Federal Register that established a revised Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for Arsenic of 10μg/L (USEPA 2003). All public drinking water systems have to achieve compliance with this rule by January 2006. This new standard is estimated by the EPA to impact 4,000 community water systems nationwide.
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