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2. Drinking water quality standards - Wikipedia

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   Drinking water quality standards describes the quality parameters set for drinking water. Water may contain many harmful constituents, yet there are no universally recognized and accepted international standards for drinking water. Even where standards do exist, the permitted concentration of individual constituents may vary by as much as ten ...

3. Drinking water quality in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In early US history, drinking water quality in the country was managed by individual drinking water utilities and at the state and local level. In 1914 the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) published a set of drinking water standards, pursuant to existing federal authority to regulate interstate commerce , and in response to the 1893 Interstate ...

4. Water quality - Wikipedia

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   Color of water; pH; ... In England and Wales acceptable levels for drinking water supply are listed in the "Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 2000 ...

5. Maximum contaminant level - Wikipedia

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   Maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) are standards that are set by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for drinking water quality. [1] [2] An MCL is the legal threshold limit on the amount of a substance that is allowed in public water systems under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).

6. EDITORIAL: The acceptable level of 'forever chemicals' in ...

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   Aug. 25—Drinking water at more than half a dozen Maine schools, from Greater Portland to the Midcoast, recently exceeded the state's limit for the toxic chemical compounds linked to cancers ...

7. Drinking water - Wikipedia

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   The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) for Water Supply and Sanitation [81] is the official United Nations mechanism tasked with monitoring progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) relating to drinking-water and sanitation (MDG 7, Target 7c), which is to: "Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access ...