CHALLENGES IN MAINTAINING DRINKING WATER QUALITY AT THE TAP: CONTAMINATION WITH TOXIC LEAD
Citation:
Triantafyllidou, S. CHALLENGES IN MAINTAINING DRINKING WATER QUALITY AT THE TAP: CONTAMINATION WITH TOXIC LEAD. Graduate Student Seminar, Civil Engineering Department at University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, September 14, 2017.
Impact/Purpose:
This presentation is meant to be an overview of lead-in-water contamination, presenting various scientific aspects of this problem to a group of graduate students during their departmental seminar at the University of Arkansas.
Description:
Aging drinking water infrastructure in the US was given a grade of D (poor) by the American Society of Civil Engineers, and was voted as the most urgent of all societal infrastructure challenges. Legacy lead pipe, leaded solder and/or leaded brass are a particularly notorious old problem in drinking water distribution systems. Incidences of water lead (Pb) contamination will continue to resurface as we address this seemingly old public health threat with renewed societal interest. This presentation summarizes case studies, laboratory research projects and blood lead modeling exercises, in an effort to explain various scientific aspects of lead contamination in drinking water and of premise plumbing challenges.