Radon, Radium, and Uranium in Drinking Water

✍ Scribed by C. Richard Cothern (Author)

Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 1990
Leaves: 297
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

With new regulations for radionuclides in drinking water, this volume will be valuable for understanding where radionuclides come from, how their prescence is determined, where humans come in contact with them, health effects consequences (both for individuals and communities), removal from water, disposal problems and cost implications.

✦ Subjects

Engineering & Technology;Civil, Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering;Water Science

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium

📁 Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium

✍ Roger F. Robison (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Springer International Publishing 🌐 English

Presented here is the story of the mining and sale of uranium and radium ore through biographical vignettes, chemistry, physics, geology, geography, occupational health, medical utilization, environmental safety and industrial history. Included are the people and places involved over the cours

Risk Assessment of Radon in Drinking Wat

📁 Risk Assessment of Radon in Drinking Water (Compass Series)

✍ Committee on Risk Assessment of Exposure to Radon in Drinking Water, National Re 📂 Library 📅 1999 🏛 National Academies Press 🌐 English

The Safe Drinking Water Act directs the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate the quality of drinking water, including its concentration of radon, an acknowledged carcinogen. This book presents a valuable synthesis of information about the total inhalation and ingestion risks posed

Water Pollution: Drinking Water and Drin

📁 Water Pollution: Drinking Water and Drinking Water Treatment

✍ Jiri Hrubec (auth.), Jiri Hrubec (eds.) 📂 Library 📅 1995 🏛 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 🌐 English

The concern over the entry of agrochemicals and other xenobiotics into drinking water resources and over the general quality of drinking water is increasing. The topic of water quality and water supply will continue to be of great interest during the next two decades in developed as well as in de

Arsenic in Drinking Water and Food

📁 Arsenic in Drinking Water and Food

✍ Sudhakar Srivastava 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Springer Singapore 🌐 English

Arsenic contamination poses a major environmental problem, especially in Southeast Asian countries like Bangladesh and India. Threatening the health of millions of people due to arsenic’s toxicity and carcinogenicity, the major routes of arsenic exposure for humans are either through dr

Nitrate and Nitrite in Drinking Water

📁 Nitrate and Nitrite in Drinking Water

✍ Subcommittee on Nitrate and Nitrite in Drinking Water; Committee on Toxicology; 📂 Library 📅 1995 🏛 National Academies Press 🌐 English

Water Treatment and Pathogen Control: Pr

📁 Water Treatment and Pathogen Control: Process Efficiency in Achieving Safe Drinking-Water (Who Drinking Water Quality)

✍ M.W. LeChevallier, A. Kwok-Keung 📂 Library 📅 2003 🌐 English

Contamination of drinking water by microbial pathogens can cause disease outbreaks and contribute to background rates of disease. There are many treatment options for controlling pathogens from drinking water. Finding the right solution for a particular supply involves choosing from a range of proce