WaterNews for December 8, 2000

WaterNews is a weekly on-line publication that announces publications, policies, and activities of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water.

Inside this week's WaterNews:

1. Final Updated Standards For Radionuclides in Drinking Water

1) Final Updated Standards For Radionuclides in Drinking Water

In a final rule, EPA is maintaining the current standard for radionuclides in drinking water, which has been in effect since l977. The Agency added a new standard for uranium in drinking water and set new monitoring requirements that will provide improved health protection for 420,000 persons for the combined radium standard (a carcinogen) and for an additional 620,000 persons through a new standard for uranium (a kidney toxin and carcinogen). Most drinking water sources that are affected by radionuclides have very low levels of these naturally occurring contaminants that are not considered to be a public health concern. Additional information on radionuclides and on the final standard is available at http://www.epa.gov/safewater/radionuc.html on the Internet.

***************************************************************
TRY OUR OTHER WEBSITES: The latest issue of Watershed Events is located at http://www.epa.gov/owow/info/WaterEventsNews/fall2000/ on the Internet.
****************************************************************

Please forward this message to your friends and colleagues who share an interest in water-related issues and would like to hear from EPA's Office of Water. To subscribe to the WaterNews listserve:

* Send an email message, leave the subject line blank, and address it to: waternews-join@lists.epa.gov

* In the body of the message write:

Subscribe WaterNews firstname lastname

(Please leave one blank space between each word, do not include any other message, and use your actual name- i.e. Subscribe WaterNews Robert Jones)

A welcome message will appear in your email box once you are officially subscribed. WaterNews will be sent to you at the end of each week. If you encounter difficulties subscribing to this list server or if you would like to be taken off the WaterNews list server at any time, please send your E-mail address to Gloria Posey at Posey.Gloria@epa.gov.

WaterNews Home

Reference Information | Web Satisfaction Survey

EPA Home | Privacy and Security Notice | Contact Us