Identifying Future Drinking Water Contaminants

1998 Workshop on Emerging Drinking Water Contaminants, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Committee Report: A Conceptual Approach for the Development of Future Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate Lists; 3 1 Historical Overview of Drinking Water Contaminants and Public Water Utilities; 4 2 Emerging Drinking Water Contaminants: Overview and Role of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program; 5 3 CDC Perspective on Emerging Chemical Contaminants in Drinking Water; 6 4 Past and Future Strategies for Sorting and Ranking Chemicals: Applications to the 1998 Drinking Water COntaminant Candidate List Chemicals; 7 5 Sorting and Screening of Potential Drinking Water Contaminants: New and Existing Chemicals Under the Toxic Substances Control Act; 8 6 Emerging Chemical Drinking Water Contaminants; 9 7 New and Emerging Analytical Techniques for the Detection of Organic Contaminants in Water; 10 8 Emerging Pathogens: Names to Know and Bugs to Watch Out For; 11 9 Methods to Identify and Detect Microbial Contaminants in Drinking Water; 12 10 Biofilms in Drinking Water Distribution Systems: Significance and Control; 13 11 New and Emerging Drinking Water Treatment Technologies; 14 12 Emerging Drinking Water COntaminant Databases: A European Perspective; 15 Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff