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From Source Water to Drinking Water: Workshop Summary
Appendix A Workshop Agenda
From Source Water to Drinking Water: Ongoing and Emerging Challenges for Public Health
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Appendix A
Workshop Agenda
From Source Water to Drinking Water: Ongoing and Emerging Challenges for Public Health
Sponsored by The Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine
National Academy of Sciences Auditorium
2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
October 16, 2003
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2003
8:30 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
The Honorable Paul G.Rogers, J.D.
Roundtable Chair
Partner, Hogan and Hartson
8:40 a.m.
Remarks and Charge to Participants
Mike Shapiro, Ph.D.
Deputy Assistant Administrator
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
9:00 a.m.
Workshop Objectives
Charles Groat, Ph.D.
Roundtable Member
Director, U.S. Geological Survey
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Session I: Status of Science and Policies for Ensuring the Protection of Source Water and Drinking Water
Moderator:
Lynn Goldman, M.D.
Roundtable Vice-Chair
Professor, Johns Hopkins University
9:15 a.m.
The Interface of Science and Policy: Are the Current Policies Able to Meet Current and Future Challenges
Frederick W.Pontius, P.E.
Pontius Water Consultants, Inc.
9:35 a.m.
Audience Discussion
9:40 a.m.
Are Recent Advances in Science and Technology Able to Meet the Health Challenges of Providing Safe Drinking Water?
Jeffrey K.Griffiths, M.P.H., T.M.
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Tufts University School of Medicine
10:00 a.m.
Audience Discussion
10:10 a.m.
Break
Session II: Assessment and Management Practices—Impact on Health
Moderator:
Christine Moe, Ph.D.
Department of International Health
Emory University
10:30 a.m.
Source Water Assessment at the State Level
Greg Rogers, M.S.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
10:50 a.m.
Audience Discussion
10:55 a.m.
Land-Use Planning: A Concern for Source Water Protection?
Douglas L.Hall, M.S.
Manager, Watershed Initiative
Miami Conservancy District
11:15 a.m.
Audience Discussion
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11:20 a.m.
Impacts of Nonpoint Source Pollution on Drinking Water and Human Health
Tom Christensen, M.S.
Director, National Resource Conservation Service’s Animal Husbandry and Clean Water Programs Division
United States Department of Agriculture
11:40 a.m.
Audience Discussion
11:45 a.m.
Nutrient Loading: Critical Link in the Chain
Kenneth Reckhow, Ph.D.
Director, Water Resources Research Institute
University of North Carolina
Professor, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
Duke University
12:05 p.m.
Audience Discussion
12:10 p.m.
Lunch (provided)
Session III: Emerging Issues in Providing Safe Drinking Water
Moderator:
Yank Coble, M.D.
Immediate Past President, American Medical Association
1:00 p.m.
Status and Trends in Atmospheric Deposition of Nitrogen and Mercury in the United States
Mark Nilles
Program Manager, U.S. Geological Survey
Office of Water Quality
1:20 p.m.
Audience Discussion
1:25 p.m.
Nonregulated Contaminants: Emerging Research. Existing and Future Pollutants in Water Supplies: Old Pollutants, New Concerns—New Pollutants, Unknown Issues
Christian Daughton, Ph.D.
Chief, Environmental Chemistry Branch
National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency
1:45 p.m.
Audience Discussion
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1:50 p.m.
Pathogens in Water: Addressing a Public Health Threat via the Potential Synergism of the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act
Joan Rose, Ph.D.
Homer Nowlin Chair for Water Research
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University
2:10 p.m.
Audience Discussion
Special Address
2:15 p.m.
Change: Implications at the Water-Human Health Interface
Peter Gleick, Ph.D.
President, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security
2:45 p.m.
Audience Discussion
3:00 p.m.
Break
Session IV: Charting a Course for the Future
3:15 p.m.
Panel Discussion. Panelists were asked to react to the earlier discussions and answer questions that lay out the challenges to health:
• Have we missed any of the new stressors at the interface of source water and drinking water?
• How important are these stressors to human health?
• If these stressors are important, where do we go from here?
• Where are we in the process of meeting these challenges?
• Is there a disconnection between the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act? If so, how will we balance recreation, ecological protection, and drinking water sources?
Moderators:
Richard Harris, National Public Radio
James Crook, Ph.D., P.E., Principal Water Reuse Consultant
Cynthia Dougherty, Director, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Barker Hamill, P.E., Chief of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Bureau of Safe Drinking Water
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Brian Ramaley, P.E., Director, Public Utilities, City of Newport News, Virginia
Kenneth Reckhow, Ph.D., Director, Water Resources Research Institute, University of North Carolina
Paul Schwartz, National Policy Coordinator, Clean Water Action
Susan Seacrest, M.S., President, Groundwater Foundation
3:45 p.m.
General Discussion
4:45 p.m.
Final Summation
Henry Falk, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Administrator, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Director, National Center for Environmental Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
5:00 p.m.
Adjourn
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