Researchers Call for Changes in 50 Year-Old Drinking Water Standards

Monday, January 12, 2015 - 14:30 in Earth & Climate

Andrea Dietrich, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, and her colleague Gary A. Burlingame of the Philadelphia Water Department, are calling for a critical review and rethinking of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) secondary standards for maintaining consumers' confidence in tap water as well as in its sensory quality.

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