Estimating the High-Arsenic Domestic-Well Population in the Conterminous United States

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 21, 2017, Pages 12443-12454

  Ayotte, Joseph D ^a   Medalie, Laura ^a   Qi, Sharon L ^a   Backer, Lorraine C ^b   Nolan, Bernard T ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTABLE WATER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; DATA SET; DOMESTIC WELLS; GEOCHEMICAL FEATURES; HYDROLOGIC FEATURES; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELING; PHYSICAL FEATURES; PREDICTIVE VARIABLES; PRIVATE WELLS; SOURCE FEATURES;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; WELL WATER;

ARSENIC; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRINKING WATER; ESTIMATION METHOD; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; WELL WATER;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOMESTIC WELL; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION RISK; UNITED STATES; WATER AND WATER RELATED PHENOMENA; STATISTICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

UNITED STATES;

ARSENIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY; WATER WELLS;

EID: 85044615473     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b02881     Document Type: Article

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