US drinking water quality: exposure risk profiles for seven legacy and emerging contaminants

R Levin, CM Villanueva, D Beene… - Journal of exposure …, 2024 - nature.com
Background Advances in drinking water infrastructure and treatment throughout the 20th
and early 21st century dramatically improved water reliability and quality in the United States …

Nationwide geospatial analysis of county racial and ethnic composition and public drinking water arsenic and uranium

I Martinez-Morata, BC Bostick, O Conroy-Ben… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
There is no safe level of exposure to inorganic arsenic or uranium, yet recent studies
identified sociodemographic and regional inequalities in concentrations of these frequently …

Historical redlining is associated with disparities in environmental quality across California

CO Estien, CE Wilkinson… - … & Technology Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Historical policies have been shown to underpin environmental quality. In the 1930s, the
federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) developed the most comprehensive …

Making a vicious cycle virtuous: A research and policy agenda for advancing the water security of unregulated users in the Southwestern US

KB Dobbin, A Hernandez, D Bostic… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In the United States, most residents receive water from centralized utilities regulated
under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. Yet, a sizable portion of US residents satisfy their …

Disparities in drinking water manganese concentrations in domestic wells and community water systems in the Central Valley, CA, USA

ML Aiken, CE Pace, M Ramachandran… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Over 1.3 million Californians rely on unmonitored domestic wells. Existing probability
estimates of groundwater Mn concentrations, population estimates, and sociodemographic …

High-resolution gridded estimates of population sociodemographics from the 2020 census in California

NJ Depsky, L Cushing, R Morello-Frosch - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
This paper introduces a series of high resolution (100-meter) population grids for eight
different sociodemographic variables across the state of California using data from the 2020 …

Geospatial assessment of racial/ethnic composition, social vulnerability, and lead water service lines in New York City

AE Nigra, W Lieberman-Cribbin… - Environmental …, 2023 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: The state of New York expects to receive $115 million in 2022 alone from the
US Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to support the replacement of lead water service …

Race, Racism, and Drinking Water Contamination Risk From Oil and Gas Wells in Los Angeles County, 2020

AG Berberian, J Rempel, N Depsky… - … Journal of Public …, 2023 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To evaluate the potential for drinking water contamination in Los Angeles (LA)
County, California, based on the proximity of supply wells to oil and gas wells, and …

Quantifying disparities in per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) levels in drinking water from overburdened communities in New Jersey, 2019–2021

R Mueller, D Salvatore, P Brown… - Environmental Health …, 2024 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Policymakers have become increasingly concerned regarding the widespread
exposure and toxicity of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). While concerns exist …

Use of Shredded Recycled Plastic as Filter Bed Packing in a Vertical Flow Filter for Onsite Wastewater Treatment Plants: Preliminary Findings

K Chmielowski, W Halecki, A Masłoń, Ł Bąk, M Kalenik… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Household wastewater is a problem, especially in areas with a dispersed settlement where
there is no wastewater collection system or wastewater treatment plant. In this case, it is …