Where you drink water: An assessment of the Tennessee, USA public water supply.

ABSTRACT: Monitoring drinking water quality is essential to protect people's health and wellbeing. In the United States, the Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) database records the occurrence of a drinking water violation regulation in public water systems. A notable shortcoming of SDWIS is the lack of the contaminant concentration level about the allowable maximum contaminant threshold. In this study, we take advantage of both the SDWIS violation database and the contaminants sampling database at the state level to examine the drinking water quality of all kinds of drinking water systems in detail. We obtained sampling data (i.e., the concentration level of contaminants) of public water systems (PWSs) in Tennessee and explored the statistical distribution of contaminant concentration da

SUBMITTER: Ding KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10358732 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature