Arsenic in Drinking Water: 2001 Update

by National Research Council, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Committee on Toxicology, et al.

Having safe drinking water is important to all Americans. The Environmental Protection Agency's decision in the summer of 2001 to delay implementing a new, more stringent standard for the maximum allowable level for arsenic in drinking water generated a great deal of criticism and controversy. Ultimately at issue were newer data on arsenic beyond those that had been examined in a 1999 National Research Council report. EPA asked the National Research...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309076293
• ISBN13: 9780309076296
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"