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Worldwide, water quality remains a major public health issue. In the United States alone, there are over 16 million cases of water related illness every year. ESRAC collaborators have a wide range of experience working in water quality research, including projects in drinking water risk perception, well water quality analysis, biological contaminant sampling, and waterborne exposure assessment.
Projects
- Development and Dissemination of an Online Training for Environmental Health Professionals: Legionellosis Prevention and Response
- Development and Validation of a Questionnaire to Assess Swimming Pool Exposures and Health Outcomes
- Development of new technology and methods for improved monitoring and detection of microbiological and chemical contaminants in the drinking water distribution system
- Engaging Rural Domestic Well Users in Water Quality Analyses
- Enteric Viruses as New Indicators of Human and Cattle Fecal Contamination of Irrigation Waters
- Household POU Filters: Tools for Long-term, Large Volume Monitoring of Tap Water Quality and Human Health Risks
- HydroSphere enhancement for improved water quality monitoring
- Identifying New Surrogates for Irrigation Water
- Implications of mixed exposures to arsenic and H. pylori
- Optimal Strategies for Monitoring Irrigation Water Quality and the Development of Guidelines for the Irrigation of Food Crops
- Risk Perception, Drinking Water Source and Quality in a Low-Income Latino Community Along the US-Mexico Border
- Spatial/Temporal Sampling of Irrigation Water
- Toxin Producing Cyanobacteria in Egypt's Suez Canal