Private Well Water Practices Among Environmental Health Professionals in Kansas.
There are significant regulatory gaps that affect 43.5 million people in the U.S. who rely on groundwater from private water wells for their drinking water. Although some local environmental health agencies provide support to private water well owners, individual private water well owners must prote...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Environmental Health Vol. 82; no. 3; pp. 34 - 39 |
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National Environmental Health Association
Oct2019
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