Safe WATCH: Safe Water for Community Health

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Environmental Health (U.S.)
• Description:
  Safer Well Water through Stronger Public Health Programs ; Learn how CDC works with health departments to protect communities from unsafe well water. ; The Issue: ; • About 1 in 9 Americans get their drinking water from a private well. ; • Germs, chemicals, or radionuclides can impact wells and other private drinking water sources. ; • About 1 in 5 sampled private wells had contaminants at levels that could affect health. ; Making Programs Stronger ; Safe WATCH works with well water programs at health departments to help them improve their services, like ; • Investigating common contaminants that can affect health. ; • Educating well owners about testing their water and interpreting test results. ; • Linking homeowners with services, treatment systems, and other resources to make their water safer. ; • Partnering with labs, well drillers, universities, and others. ; Safe WATCH Grantees Improve Services ; CDC Safe WATCH helps health departments strengthen and improve their programs by ; • Identifying gaps in their program using the 10 Essential Environmental Public Health Services. ; • Taking actions to close gaps and reduce exposures to contaminants. ; To address gaps in the Assure Competent Workforce essential service, LaCrosse County (WI) ; • Collected ~3,000 water samples. ; • Certified staff to test for arsenic and lead using new lab testing equipment. ; To address gaps in the Monitor Health essential service, Gaston County (NC) ; Digitized ~8,000 well permits. ; Geocoded 97% of their well permits using new equipment. ; To address gaps in the Inform, Educate, and Empower essential service, Madison County (NY) ; • Conducted >200 well assessments and found ~40% of wells had bacterial contamination. ; • Educated owners about test results, risks, and how to protect their water. ; To address gaps in the Develop Policies essential service, New Mexico ; • Created a policy for tagging and tracking newly constructed wells. ; • Purchased and marketed ~3,000 tags for voluntary tagging of pre-existing wells. ; Learn more: www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/safe-watch. ; Publication date from document properties. ; safe-watch-infographic-H.pdf
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• Subjects:
  • Anniversaries and Special Events
  • Drinking Water
  • Groundwater
  • Water Supply
• Document Type:
  Still Image
• Corporate as Subject:
  National Ground Water Awareness Week
• Genre:
  Infographic
• Pages in Document:
  1 poster
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/52432/cdc_52432_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.11 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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