Environmental justice implications of arsenic contamination in California's San Joaquin Valley: A cross-sectional, cluster-design examining exposure and compliance in community drinking water systems

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Balazs, Carolina L ^a   Morello Frosch, Rachel ^b,c   Hubbard, Alan E ^b   Ray, Isha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Drinking water; Environmental justice; Exposure; Revised arsenic rule; Safe drinking water act; Social disparities; Water systems

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER;

ARSENIC; COMPLIANCE; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; OWNERSHIP; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RESIDENT POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; VALLEY; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; JUSTICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY;

ARSENIC; CALIFORNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

CALIFORNIA; SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871733049     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-11-84     Document Type: Article

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