Assessment of environmental health risk for drinking water sources

Xibang Hu; Zhencheng Xu; Junneng Wang; Dong Zeng; Qiuping Han

doi:10.1117/12.2019677

19 March 2013 Assessment of environmental health risk for drinking water sources

Xibang Hu, Zhencheng Xu, Junneng Wang, Dong Zeng, Qiuping Han

Proceedings Volume 8762, PIAGENG 2013: Intelligent Information, Control, and Communication Technology for Agricultural Engineering; 87620A (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2019677
Event: Third International Conference on Photonics and Image in Agriculture Engineering (PIAGENG 2013), 2013, Sanya, China

Abstract

Exposure to drinking water is one of the important ways to influence human health. This study calculated the health risk of adults and children for drinking water sources in the Fuyang city. The results showed that the total health risk of adults and children caused by water quality was 6.75 × 10^-5 and 8.15 × 10^-5, which exceeded the highest acceptable risk of 5.0 × 10^-5 from the International Radiation Committee, but was still lower than the maximum risk level of 1.0 × 10^-4 from US EPA. The health risk of children is 20% higher than that of adults, so we should pay more attention to children for drinking water health issues.

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Xibang Hu, Zhencheng Xu, Junneng Wang, Dong Zeng, and Qiuping Han "Assessment of environmental health risk for drinking water sources", Proc. SPIE 8762, PIAGENG 2013: Intelligent Information, Control, and Communication Technology for Agricultural Engineering, 87620A (19 March 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2019677

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