GH34A:
Safe Drinking Water Starts at the Source: Challenges in Source Water Protection


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Session ID#: 50015

Session Description:
Source water protection is the focused effort of protecting the quality and quantity of surface and groundwater that may serve as sources of drinking water, thereby protecting public health. Contamination of source waters can challenge the ability of drinking water utilities to provide safe drinking water. For example, contaminants may not be efficiently removed by conventional treatment technologies, may present a challenge for corrosion control, or may interact with treatment processes to cause the development of harmful disinfection byproducts (DBPs). Additionally, many of these contaminants have diffuse sources, making their management difficult. The goal of this session is to bring together researchers who focus on the sources, transport, and watershed controls of contaminants, and drinking water practitioners, who are responding to these challenges, to identify knowledge gaps and opportunities for collaborative development of solutions.
Primary Convener:  Kara Goodwin, U.S. EPA, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, Washington, DC, United States
Convener:  Sherri Comerford, U.S. EPA, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kara Goodwin, U.S. EPA, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Kara Goodwin, U.S. EPA, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, Washington, DC, United States and Sherri Comerford, U.S. EPA, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Kara Goodwin, U.S. EPA, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, Washington, DC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • H - Hydrology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0240 Public health [GEOHEALTH]
1831 Groundwater quality [HYDROLOGY]
1871 Surface water quality [HYDROLOGY]
1884 Water supply [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Monitoring and managing hormones, nutrients, and salts in drinking water sources (Invited) (435786)
Sujay Kaushal, University of Maryland, Department of Geology and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, United States, Shuiwang Duan, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, Erik Rosenfeldt, Hazen and Sawyer, Richmond, United States, Diana Aga, University at Buffalo, Department of Chemistry, Buffalo, NY, United States, Luke R. Iwanowicz, USGS Virginia Water Science Center, Richmond, VA, United States, Michael J Pennino, US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, United States, Michael Dubbin, University of Maryland College Park, Geology, College Park, MD, United States, Lainey Reed, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States and Sudhir Murthy, DC Water, Washington DC, United States
Modeling Drinking Water Nitrate Violations across the Conterminous United States (402299)
Michael J Pennino, Environmental Protection Agency, Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, Washington, United States, Scott G Leibowitz, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (retired), Corvallis, OR, United States, Jana Compton, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Corvallis, United States and Robert Daniel Sabo, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Washington, United States
Data-Driven Source Water Protection Initiative: Prioritizing Actions Using Scientific Evidence (450206)
Carol Collier, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States; former Ex. Dir., Delaware River Basin Commission, West Trenton, PA, United States and The Academy of Natural Sciences' DRWI team
The Unintended Risks to Underground Sources of Drinking Water from Stormwater Infiltration Practices (439769)
Doug Rambo, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Dover, DE, United States
Impact of Mining on the Lake Poopó Basin, Bolivian Altiplano: Lessons for Water Management in Semi-Arid Regions (469039)
Karen Hudson-Edwards1, Megan French2, Elisa Guerrero Moreno3, Christian Sedero3, Stephen Edwards4, Natalie Alem5 and Gerardo Zamora Echenique6, (1)University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom, (2)UCL, Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, London, United Kingdom, (3)Birkbeck, University of London, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, London, United Kingdom, (4)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (5)Centro de Comunicación y Desarrollo Andino, Cochabamba, Bolivia, (6)Universidad Téchnica de Oruru, Ingeniería Metalúgica y Materiales, Facultad Nacional de Ingeniería, Oruru, Bolivia
Natural radioactivity of a major groundwater resource: the Nubian Aquifer, Egypt (420492)
Mahmoud I Sherif, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt; University of Delaware, Newark, United States and Neil Colrick Sturchio, University of Delaware, Earth Sciences, Newark, DE, United States

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