US drinking water quality: exposure risk profiles for seven legacy and emerging contaminants

R Levin, CM Villanueva, D Beene… - Journal of exposure …, 2024 - nature.com
Background Advances in drinking water infrastructure and treatment throughout the 20th
and early 21st century dramatically improved water reliability and quality in the United States …

Nitrate contamination in drinking water and adverse reproductive and birth outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

L Lin, S St Clair, GD Gamble, CA Crowther, L Dixon… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Exposure to low levels of nitrate in drinking water may have adverse reproductive effects.
We reviewed evidence about the association between nitrate in drinking water and adverse …

Theoretical Screening of Transition Metal–N4-Doped Graphene for Electroreduction of Nitrate

Y Wang, M Shao - ACS Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
Electrochemical nitrate reduction reaction (NO3RR) is an advantageous conversion
technology for nitrate removal and ammonia synthesis. Single-atom catalysts, owing to their …

HERisk and statistical clustering integrated for health risk modelling of PTEs in natural water resources for drinking and sanitary uses

JC Agbasi, DA Ayejoto, JC Egbueri, N Khan… - Toxin reviews, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Potentially toxic elements (PTEs) are well-known for exposing living organisms and humans
to different levels of risk. The present study aimed to evaluate the extent of exposure to …

Nitrate in drinking water during pregnancy and spontaneous preterm birth: a retrospective within-mother analysis in California

AR Sherris, M Baiocchi, S Fendorf… - Environmental …, 2021 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Nitrate is a widespread groundwater contaminant and a leading cause of
drinking water quality violations in California. Associations between nitrate exposure and …

Long-Term Continuous Test of H2-Induced Denitrification Catalyzed by Palladium Nanoparticles in a Biofilm Matrix

J Cheng, M Long, C Zhou, ZE Ilhan… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Pd0 catalysis and microbially catalyzed reduction of nitrate (NO3–-N) were combined as a
strategy to increase the kinetics of NO3–reduction and control selectivity to N2 gas versus …

Surface-Water Nitrate Exposure to World Populations Has Expanded and Intensified during 1970–2010

J Wang, X Liu, AHW Beusen… - … Science & Technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Excessive nitrate in surface waters deteriorates the water quality and threatens human
health. Human activities have caused increased nitrate concentrations in global surface …

Integrating different tools and technologies to advance drinking water quality exposure assessments

J Schullehner, D Cserbik, P Gago-Ferrero… - Journal of Exposure …, 2024 - nature.com
Contaminants in drinking water are a major contributor to the human exposome and adverse
health effects. Assessing drinking water exposure accurately in health studies is …

The potential human health hazard of nitrates in drinking water: a media discourse analysis in a high-income country

L Grout, T Chambers, S Hales, M Prickett, MG Baker… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Background Recent studies linking low levels of nitrate in drinking water to colorectal cancer
have raised public concerns over nitrate contamination. The aim of this study was to analyze …

Association of perchlorate, thiocyanate, and nitrate with dyslexic risk

K Zhu, Y Wan, B Zhu, H Wang, Q Liu, X Xie, Q Jiang… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Perchlorate, thiocyanate, and nitrate are sodium iodide symporter (NIS) inhibitors that
disturb iodide uptake into the thyroid and have been implicated in child development …