TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Water Pollution
A1  - Steinmaus, Craig
A2  - LaDou, Joseph
A2  - Harrison, Robert J.
Y1  - 2013
N1  - 
T2  - CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment:  Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 5e
AB  - A  clean  and  adequate  supply  of  drinking  water  is  vital  to  life  and  good  health.  Adequate  supplies  are  also  needed  for  agriculture  and  sustainable  development.  Because  of  differing  distributions  of  freshwater  worldwide  and  differing  weather  patterns  and  droughts,  many  parts  of  the  world  suffer  from  inadequate  supplies.  In  other  areas,  supplies  are  abundant,  but  contamination  or  pollution  makes  them  unsafe  for  drinking  or  agriculture.  More  recently,  there  is  concern  that  global  warming  may  add  increasing  pressures  to  the  ability  of  countries  to  maintain  safe  and  adequate  water  supplies.  Freshwater  consumption  has  tripled  over  the  last  50  years,  and  demand  for  water  to  sustain  the  world's  people  is  projected  to  double  by  2025.  By  that  date,  nearly  half  the  estimated  world's  population  of  more  than  6  billion  will  be  living  in  countries  where  either  the  quantity  or  the  quality  of  water  supplies  will  have  sunk  to  levels  ranging  from  inadequate  to  economically  crippling.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/18
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1104108853
ER  -