title: Quality problems in waters used for drinking purposes in Italy.
abstract: With a grant from the Italian Ministry of the Environment, the National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità) promoted and coordinated some activities aimed at determining the extent and the intensity of contamination of waters used for human consumption by some chemical agents, and describing causes and modalities of contamination and human health implications. The chemical agents examined were herbicides, nitrates, trihalomethanes, asbestos, manganese and fluoride. In this paper a first nationwide picture of these problems is reported.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio di Igiene Ambientale, Istituto Superiore di Sanità Viale Regina Elena, Roma, Italy.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Funari
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bastone
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bottoni
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: De Donno
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Donati
mesh_terms: D001194:Asbestos / Q000032:analysis; D005459:Fluorides / Q000032:analysis; D006540:Herbicides / Q000032:analysis; D006846:Hydrocarbons, Halogenated / Q000032:analysis; D007558:Italy; D008345:Manganese / Q000032:analysis; D009566:Nitrates / Q000032:analysis; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000032:analysis*; D014881:Water Supply / Q000592:standards*
chemical_list: D006540:Herbicides; D006846:Hydrocarbons, Halogenated; D009566:Nitrates; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; D001194:Asbestos; D008345:Manganese; D005459:Fluorides