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Overviews
- Overviews
- Do You Know Where Your Drinking Water Comes From? (National Center for Infectious Diseases)
- Drinking Water and Health: What You Need to Know (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water)
Also available in: Spanish - Ground Water and Drinking Water: Frequently Asked Questions (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water)
- Tox Town (National Library of Medicine) - Requires Flash Player
- Water on Tap: What You Need to Know (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water) - Links to PDF
Pictures/Diagrams
- Pictures/Diagrams
- Arsenic in Ground Water of the United States (U.S. Geological Survey)
Related Issues
- Related Issues
- Actions You Can Take to Reduce Lead in Drinking Water (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water)
Also available in: Spanish - Airline Water Supplies (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water)
- Bottled Water: Better Than the Tap? (Food and Drug Administration)
- Drinking Water Contaminants (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water)
- Emergency Disinfection of Drinking Water (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water)
Also available in: Spanish - Groundwater Sources of Contamination (Groundwater Foundation)
- Lead in Drinking Water in Schools and Day Care Centers (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water)
- Local Drinking Water Information (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water)
- Locating Safe Drinking Water [After a Disaster] (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
- Perchlorate: Questions and Answers (Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition)
- Preventing Cryptosporidiosis: A Guide to Water Filters and Bottled Water (National Center for Infectious Diseases, Division of Parasitic Diseases)
- Private Well Resources (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Private Wells: Guidance for What to Do After the Flood (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water)
- Radon in Drinking Water: Questions and Answers (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water)
- Risks from Food and Drink: Health Information for International Travel (National Center for Infectious Diseases)
- Sulfate in Drinking Water (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water)
- Water Fluoridation: Frequently Asked Questions (National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion)
Also available in: Spanish
Newsletters/Print Publications
- Newsletters/Print Publications
- On Tap (National Drinking Water Clearinghouse)
Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Drinking Water Glossary (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water)
Organizations
- Organizations
- Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water
- National Center for Environmental Health
Also available in: Spanish - National Center for Infectious Diseases, Division of Parasitic Diseases
- National Drinking Water Clearinghouse
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Also available in: Spanish - U.S. Geological Survey, Office of Water Quality
Law and Policy
- Law and Policy
- Clean Water Act (Environmental Protection Agency)
- It's Your Drinking Water: Get to Know It and Protect It! (Environmental Protection Agency)
Children
- Children
- Ground Water and Drinking Water: Kids' Stuff (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water)
- Groundwater: Kids Corner (Groundwater Foundation)
- Water Science for Schools (U.S. Geological Survey)
- What's Up with Our Nation's Waters? (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water) - Large PDF file
Other Languages
- Other Languages
- Water on Tap: What You Need to Know (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water) - Large PDF file - In Chinese.