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National Trends in Drinking Water Quality Violations

Description
Examines patterns in health-related violations in the Safe Drinking Water Act by analyzing data from 17,900 community water systems from 1982-2015. Identifies vulnerability factors in communities and water systems. Includes a rural and urban comparison of total violations by water system, and provides county-level information on violation hot spots and spatial trends in community water systems.
Author(s)
Maura Allaire, Haowei Wu, Upmanu Lall
Citation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 115(9), 2078-2083
Date
02/2018
Type
Document
Tagged as
Environmental health · Infrastructure · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants of health · Statistics and data · Wisconsin