Project 643

Drinking Water and Health in the Year 2000

Completed
Principal Investigator
Project Manager
Richard J Karlin
Constituents of Emerging Concern (CECs)
Disinfection Byproducts (DBPs)
Emerging Disinfection Byproducts
Microbes & Pathogens
Risk Assessment

Abstract

Summarizes a workshop and conference sponsored by the USEPA offices of Water and Research and Development and the Awwa Research Foundation. Forty drinking water experts from academia, utilities, USEPA, engineering consulting firms, and nonprofit organizations identified drinking water research needs related to risk assessment, microbes, disinfection and disinfection by-products, inorganic contaminants, synthetic organic chemicals, health effects of DBPs, and competing risks. Published in 1993.

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