RT Book, Section A1 Wade, Timothy J. A2 Boulton, Matthew L. A2 Wallace, Robert B. SR Print(0) ID 1182673443 T1 Water Pollution T2 Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 16e YR 2022 FD 2022 PB McGraw Hill PP New York, NY SN 9781259644511 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182673443 RD 2024/03/28 AB On July 28, 2010, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution recognizing: “the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of human life and all human rights.”1 Despite this international commitment, as of 2015 2.1 billion people lacked access to safe drinking water and 4.5 billion lacked access to safely managed sanitation worldwide.2 An estimated 1.8 million deaths resulted from diseases related to water pollution in 2015, disproportionately affecting children under 5 years of age in lower-income countries.3 Many of these deaths are preventable through access to safe and clean water for drinking and hygiene.4 Although in most upper-income countries advances in drinking water and wastewater treatment over the past century have reduced the threat of diarrheal waterborne disease, new threats to the integrity and safety of water resources have emerged including treatment-resistant waterborne pathogens, persistent industrial and agricultural chemicals, a changing climate, and an aging water treatment and distribution infrastructure.