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• Groundwater Recharge with Reclaimed Water: Birth Outcomes in Los Angeles County, 1982-1993, by Elizabeth M. Sloss, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Ronald D. Fricker, Sandy A. Geschwind, and Beate R. Ritz (PDF files at rand.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Valuing Water, Valuing Livelihoods: Guidance on Social Cost-Benefit Analysis of Drinking-Water Interventions, With Special Reference to Small Community Water Supplies (London: Pub. for the World Health Organization by IWA Publishing, c2011), ed. by John Cameron, Paul Hunter, P. Jagals, and Katherine Pond (PDF with commentary at who.int)

• A Science of Impurity: Water Analysis in Nineteenth Century Britain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Christopher Hamlin (HTML at UC Press)

• President Clinton's Clean Water Initiative: Analysis of Benefits and Costs (EPA 800-R-94-002; 1994), by United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water
  • PDF at epa.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust; some front matter missing

• Valuing Water, Valuing Livelihoods: Guidance on Social Cost-Benefit Analysis of Drinking-Water Interventions, With Special Reference to Small Community Water Supplies (London: Pub. for the World Health Organization by IWA Publishing, c2011), ed. by John Cameron, Paul Hunter, P. Jagals, and Katherine Pond (PDF with commentary at who.int)

• Safe Water from Every Tap: Improving Water Service to Small Communities (1997), by National Research Council Committee on Small Water Supply Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Tooth Robbers: A Pro-Fluoridation Handbook (Philadelphia: G. F. Stickley, Co., ca. 1980), ed. by Stephen Barrett and Sheldon Rovin, contrib. by Benjamin Spock (PDF at dentalwatch.org)

• Scientific Knowledge in Controversy: The Social Dynamics of the Fluoridation Debate (based on the 1991 edition, with some modifications), by Brian Martin, contrib. by Edward Groth (PDF with commentary in Australia)

• Freshwater Microplastics: Emerging Environmental Contaminants? (Cham: Springer Open, c2018), ed. by Martin Wagner and Scott Lambert (PDF and EPub with commentary at Springer)
• Water Quality Criteria (second edition; Sacramento, CA: Resources Agency of California, 1963), by California State Water Quality Control Board, ed. by Jack Edward McKee and Harold W. Wolf, contrib. by United States Division of Water Supply and Pollution Control (page images at HathiTrust)
• Algae and Water Pollution: An Illustrated Manual on the Identification, Significance, and Control of Algae in Water Supplies and in Polluted Water (Cincinnati: Municipal Environmental Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1977), by C. Mervin Palmer, ed. by Ronald F. Lewis, illust. by Harold J. Walter and Sharon Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water Chlorine (Residual) No. 1, Study Number 35: Report of a Study Conducted by Analytical Reference Service (Cincinnati: U.S. Public Health Service, Consumer Protection and Environmental Health Service, Environmental Control Administration, 1969), by Raymond J. Lishka, Earl F. McFarren, and J. H. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Water Pollution Data: Regional Water Pollution Control Boards, State of California (Archives Series Report #5; Berkeley: Water Resources Center, University of California, 1959), ed. by Gerald J. Giefer and Cynthia Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Diazinon and Chlorpyrifos Loads in the San Joaquin River Basin, California, January and February 2000, by Charles R. Kratzer, Celia Zamora, and Donna L. Knifong (PDF at USGS)

• Irrigation-Induced Water Quality Problems: What Can Be Learned from the San Joaquin Valley Experience, by National Research Council Committee on Irrigation-Induced Water Quality Problems (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Transport, Fate, and Effects of Silver in the Environment (6 volumes; 1993-1999) (full serial archives)

• On the Banks of the Gaṅgā: When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Kelly D. Alley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hazardous Waste Contamination of Water Resources (Superfund Clean-Up Policy and the Seymour Recycling Case): Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, March 13, 14, 15, 1984: Witnesses, Office of Technology Assessment, Industry (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States House Committee on Public Works and Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)

• President Clinton's Clean Water Initiative: Analysis of Benefits and Costs (EPA 800-R-94-002; 1994), by United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water
  • PDF at epa.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust; some front matter missing

• Ground Water Models: Scientific and Regulatory Applications (1990), by National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Hazardous Waste Contamination of Water Resources (Superfund Clean-Up Policy and the Seymour Recycling Case): Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, March 13, 14, 15, 1984: Witnesses, Office of Technology Assessment, Industry (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States House Committee on Public Works and Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Coming Clean: Superfund Problems Can Be Solved... (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Oil Transportation by Tankers: An Analysis of Marine Pollution and Safety Measures (1975), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Purposeful Jettison of Petroleum Cargo (1994), by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Western Maryland Mine Drainage Survey, 1962-1965 (7 parts in 3 volumes), by Thomas C. Hopkins (PDF files at mdsoar.org)

• An Enemy of the People, by Henrik Ibsen, trans. by R. Farquharson Sharp (Gutenberg text)

• Waterkeeper (2004-) (full serial archives)

• Hazardous Materials in the Hydrologic Environment: The Role of Research by the U.S. Geological Survey (1996), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Protecting the Nation's Groundwater from Contamination (2 volumes (OTA-O-233 and OTA-O-234); 1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beneath the Bottom Line: Agricultural Approaches To Reduce Agrichemical Contamination of Groundwater (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Groundwater Contamination, by National Research Council Geophysics Study Committee (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Bioremediation for Marine Oil Spills (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Ocean Incineration: Its Role in Managing Hazardous Waste (OTA-O-313; 1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Clean Coastal Waters: Understanding and Reducing the Effects of Nutrient Pollution (2000), by National Research Council Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources (page images with commentary at NAP)

• From Monsoons to Microbes: Understanding the Ocean's Role in Human Health, by National Research Council Ocean Studies Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Marine Anthropogenic Litter (Cham et al.: Springer Open, c2015), ed. by Melanie Bergmann, Lars Gutow, and Michael Klages (PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer Open)

• Clean Ships, Clean Ports, Clean Oceans: Controlling Garbage and Plastic Wastes at Sea (1995), by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Marine Anthropogenic Litter (Cham et al.: Springer Open, c2015), ed. by Melanie Bergmann, Lars Gutow, and Michael Klages (PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer Open)

• Freshwater Microplastics: Emerging Environmental Contaminants? (Cham: Springer Open, c2018), ed. by Martin Wagner and Scott Lambert (PDF and EPub with commentary at Springer)

• Coping With an Oiled Sea (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Oil in the Sea: Inputs, Fates, and Effects (1985), by National Research Council Ocean Studies Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Spills of Nonfloating Oils: Risk and Response, by National Research Council Marine Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)