front cover -- copyright -- table of contents -- front matter -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- body -- 1 The Water We Drink -- Natural Water -- Water and the Public Health -- Chapter 1 References -- 2 Water Pollution -- Human Waste and Pollution -- Industrial Pollution -- Wastewater Control and Treatment -- Nonpoint Sources of Water Pollution -- Pollution Sources and Water Quality -- Chapter 2 Summary -- Chapter 2 References -- 3 Water Protection -- The Basics of Water Supply -- Basic Water Treatment -- Beyond Basic Water Treatment -- An Issue of Equality -- Chemical Monitoring and Warnings for Regulated Pollutants -- The National Drinking Water Contaminant Occurrence Database -- Unregulated Pollutants and Monitoring Regulations -- Setting New Drinking Water Standards -- Why Consumers Should Be Concerned -- Approaches to Mitigate Chemical Exposure -- Water Pollution and Risk -- Chapter 3 References -- 4 Living with the Risk of Polluted Water -- The Burden of Proof -- Permissible Pollution -- The Dose Makes the Poison -- Basic Concepts of Dose -- Mechanism of Toxicity -- Biotransformation and Detoxification -- Toxicity and Defining Standards -- Timing Is Everything -- Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals -- Pharmaceutical Pollutants -- Pharmaceuticals Detected in the Environment -- Living with Risk -- Population, Pollution, Risk, and Precaution -- The Risk Assessment Process -- Chapter 4 Summary -- Chapter 4 References -- 5 Managing Risk and Drinking Water Quality -- Learning from the Past and Present -- Risk and Economics -- An Alternative Approach -- Consumer-Based Protection -- Potential Action by the Water Industry -- Potential Governmental Actions -- An Alternative Risk Management Program -- Chapter 5 References -- back matter -- Appendix 1-1 Average Elemental Abundance in the Earth's Crust.

Appendix 1-2 Chemical Compounds with Established Water Quality Criteria - 1952 -- Appendix 1-3 USEPA National Recommended Water Quality Criteria for Freshwater and Human Consumption of Water + Organism: 2002 -- Appendix 2-1 Dow Industrial Chemicals, Solvents and Dyes in 1938 -- Appendix 2-2 USEPA List of Priority Pollutants -- Appendix 2-3 Summary of Surface Water Data -- Appendix 2-4 Summary of Shallow Groundwater Data -- Appendix 2-5 Organic Chemicals Found in Landfill Leachate and Gas -- Appendix 2-6 Unregulated Pollutants Discharged to or Identified in Water Resources -- Appendix 2-7 Chemicals Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer or Reproductive Toxicity (April 20, 2001) -- Chemicals Known to Cause Cancer -- Chemicals Known to Cause Reproductive Toxicity -- Female Reproductive Toxicity -- Appendix 2-8 Regulated Pesticides in Food with Residue Tolerances -- Appendix 2-9 Comparison of Chemicals Required to Be Monitored in Groundwater -- Appendix 3-1 General Drinking Water Monitoring and Warning Requirements (as of 2002) -- Lead and Copper -- Total Trihalomethane Compounds -- Inorganic Chemicals -- Volatile Organic Chemicals -- Synthetic Organic Chemicals -- Treatment Chemicals -- Appendix 3-2 National Drinking Water Contaminant Occurrence Database Data on Primary Water Quality Standards (May 18, 2001) -- Appendix 3-3 National Drinking Water Contaminant Occurrence Database: Data on Unregulated Compounds -- Chemical Data Summary - Group I -- Chemical Data Summary - Group II -- Chemical Data Summary - Group III -- Appendix 3-4 Examples of Bottled Mineral Water Chemistry -- Appendix 3-5 Examples of Bottled Water Chemistry -- Appendix 3-6 Trace Element Analysis of Mineral Waters (ppb) that Appear in Either Appendix 3-4 or Appendix 3-5.

Appendix 4-1 Glossary of Terms Adapted from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) (1993) -- Toxicology -- Appendix 4-1 References -- Appendix 4-2 Chemical Examples on the Toxicology of Drinking Water Standards -- Inorganic Contaminants -- Organic Contaminants -- Appendix 4-2 References -- Appendix 4-3 Suspected Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals -- Appendix 4-4 U.S. Geological Survey Target Compounds, National Reconnaissance of Emerging Contaminants in U. S. Streams (2000) -- Human Drugs -- Veterinary and Human Antibiotics -- Sex and Steroidal Hormones -- Industrial and Household Wastewater Products -- Glossary -- index.