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Lead exposure through Drinking Water: Lessons to be learned from recent U.S. experienceView Crossref metadata(active tab) <div id="edit-xml" class="form-item form-type-item"> <?xml version="1.0"?> <doi_batch version="4.4.1" xmlns="http://www.crossref.org/schema/4.4.1" xmlns:jats="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/JATS1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.crossref.org/schema/4.4.1 http://www.crossref.org/schemas/crossref4.4.1.xsd"><head><doi_batch_id>000696</doi_batch_id><timestamp>1714119552</timestamp><depositor><depositor_name>University of the Aegean</depositor_name><email_address>uoa@university.com</email_address></depositor><registrant>Global NEST Journal</registrant></head><body><journal><journal_metadata><full_title>Global NEST Journal</full_title><full_title>Global NEST: the international Journal</full_title><issn media_type="print">1790-7632</issn><issn media_type="electronic">2241-777X</issn></journal_metadata><journal_issue><titles><title>Issue 3</title></titles><publication_date><month>11</month><year>2024</year></publication_date><journal_volume><volume>11</volume></journal_volume><issue>3</issue></journal_issue><journal_article><titles><title>Lead exposure through Drinking Water: Lessons to be learned from recent U.S. experience</title></titles><abstract xmlns="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/JATS1"><p>Lead (Pb) particles that detach from the plumbing and contaminate drinking water can pose a significant health threat, which is often underestimated. Laboratory simulation of this problem revealed that standard quantification protocols in the US may miss 80% of the lead present in the water. At the same time, a significant fraction of this undetected particulate lead may be bioavailable when ingested. A critical review of the Washington DC lead-in-water crisis suggested that lead in water might constitute a greater public health risk than generally acknowledged, in at least some circumstances. It also revealed deficiencies in the public health response as well as in alerting the public to elevated levels of lead, and the subject continues to be mired in controversy. Our independent testing at six Washington DC public schools in 2008 showed that problems with elevated lead still persist at 2-41% of taps sampled at each school, even after remedial measures were implemented. </p></abstract><publication_date><month>04</month><day>30</day><year>2013</year></publication_date><pages><first_page>341</first_page><last_page>348</last_page></pages><publisher_item><identifier id_type="pii">607</identifier></publisher_item><doi_data><doi>10.30955/gnj.000607</doi><timestamp>1714119552</timestamp><resource>https://journal.gnest.org/publication/607</resource></doi_data></journal_article></journal></body></doi_batch> </div>
