A review of the nation's new coverages serves as a ready reminder
that drinking water safety is more than regional of local concern.
In recent times, the print media alone has drawn attention to
barium, bacteria, heavy metals, and increasingly organic
contaminants, in public water supplies located in Florida, Rhode
Island, Texas, Oregon, Illinois, Minnesota, North Carolina,
Michigan, and California, to name a few. In an effort to address
one of the major issues confronting the future of the nation's
drinking water supplies, chemical contamination, the Drinking Water
Research Foundation and the American Chemical Society presented the
symposium, "Safe Drinking Water: the Impact of Chemicals on a
Limited Resource." To add balance to the total presentation, two
papers were included that were not part of the symposium. Many
questions as to the public significance of hundreds of organic
chemicals known to be present in the national drinking water supply
are waiting to be answered. In some areas of the country, aid
rain-induced alterations of the natural leaching process represent
an unexplored potential source of toxic pollutants. Finding
workable ways to clean up the water supply will be an ongoing task.
Addressing these questions, as well as investigating how other
countries are responding to these problems, the alternate sources
available, such as bottled water, and point of use devices, the
presenters in this symposium have attempted to explain the
problems, situation, and alternatives. As progress is made in one
area, setbacks will occur in another. As we eliminate problems
thought chemical technology, we often create others, such as
contamination of our waters. While all the situations, problems,
and alternatives are not discussed in these proceedings, it is
hoped that some attention will be brought to the public,
government, and private sectors so that future work will be done to
assure the nation of safe drinking water resources.
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