n4807g, as salmonella etc is more prevalent in private water supplies worldwide, how often is your water inspected for disease? - is one of the questions i guess one could ask you.
CMAJ. 2010 Jul 13; 182(10): 1061–1064.
Private drinking water supplies: challenges for public health Jeffrey W.A. Charrois, PhD
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Compared with people in many developing areas throughout the world, Canadians are fortunate to have access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation. Globally, most diarrheal diseases — responsible for nearly two million deaths a year — can be attributed to unsafe water supplies as well as inadequate sanitation and hygiene.1 Most of the deaths are among children in developing nations. Outbreaks of water-borne disease, however, continue to occur regularly in affluent nations.2
In the United States, approximately 45 million people obtain their drinking water from domestic wells.3 A 2008 review estimated that 19.5 million water-borne illnesses occur each year in the US.4 Over the 12-year study period, 76% of 183 documented outbreaks and a combined 33% of estimated water-borne illnesses could be attributed to groundwater systems.4 The vulnerability of drinking water to contamination in private wells and the importance of ensuring adequate disinfection and proper maintenance were highlighted in a matched case-control study of children (< 19 years of age) in Washington: the use of septic systems for disposal of home waste water was associated with both Salmonella (odds ratio [OR] 3.2, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.3–7.8) and Escherichia coli O157 (OR 5.7, 95% CI 1.2–27.2) infections.5
Private water systems in Europe have similar susceptibilities to outbreaks of water-borne disease as those in North America.
Sparsely populated, low-income communities across the country suffer from polluted water—an injustice expected to worsen under Trump.
By Sarah Jones and Emily Atkin February 12, 2018
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But, in reality, most health-based violations of drinking-water standards occur outside of big cities, in places like Martin County: small, poor, out of the way. Of the 5,000 drinking-water systems that racked up health-based violations in 2015, more than 50 percent were systems that serve 500 people or fewer. In those small areas, who is going to raise hell except for the people affected and maybe the local paper?
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Put all these systems together, however, and rural America’s drinking-water situation constitutes a crisis of a magnitude greater than Flint, or any individual city. From Appalachian Kentucky to the Texas borderlands, millions of rural Americans are subject to unhealthy and sometimes illegal levels of contaminants in their drinking water, whether from agriculture, or coal, or plain old bad pipes. And as the economic gap separating rural America from its urban and suburban counterparts continues to grow, this basic inequality is set to become more entrenched—and possibly more dangerous, as sickness seeps into rural America.
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Often, the very industries that provide a community its economic backbone are what’s damaging or even poisoning its water supply. In Martin County and other communities across Appalachia, that industry is mining. “A lot of people in Kentucky actually get their water from wells that are sunk into flooded, abandoned mines,” explained Erik Olson, a policy analyst for the Natural Resource Defense Council. “That water quality is horrific because the mines are loaded with heavy metals.”
Other communities, from West Virginia to North Carolina, trace their water problems to the waste produced from burning coal,...
You've given one opinion, others here. This the tenth down
Can any one tell me which one is better City/town sewer and water or Private sewer a water well?
Asked by Nancykash, Westborough, MA • Sun Jun 5, 2011
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bgk, , Westborough, MA Mon Jul 11, 2011 I quote directly from a recent RE ad for a house for sale in metrowest
"New 30K septic in 2006"
This is for a house built in the 1990s. Do you want to be hit with an occasional, surprice bill of this size?? Septics and wells also require regular maintenance.
Take a shower in a well house. Feels like you are getting rained on, unless a pressure-increasing system has been installed. Yes more money and something else to maintain.
The answers from realtors crack me up. If anyone should know the answer to question you guys should. Just answer the question for Pete's sake and not take some wishy-washy high road.
The correct answer is - City water and sewer is superior. If you have two otherwise similar houses one with and one w/o choose the one with city aqua. If you must live somewhere where it is not available, prepare yourself for above.
NSW Aboriginal Communities Water and Sewerage Program
The NSW Aboriginal Communities Water and Sewerage Program provided an early opportunity to implement the Australian drinking water guidelines framework. Aboriginal people are disadvantaged in health outcomes2, and the program, a joint initiative of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council and the NSW Government, aims to improve health and wellbeing by providing services equivalent to the standard expected in the wider community.
Before the program began in 2008, local Aboriginal land councils were responsible for water and sewerage infrastructure on their land. Most had small populations, and lacked the financial and technical capacity to sustain services. There was no systematic process for operation and maintenance of the infrastructure, and, in some communities, services did not meet general community standards. The program has committed more than $200 million for 25 years for routine operation, maintenance, monitoring, repairs and replacement of infrastructure, and is providing services to more than 6000 people in 61 communities. Experienced service providers (generally local councils) are contracted to support the communities.
A risk-based water and sewerage management plan has been implemented for each community. The management plans have improved understanding and control of risks, resulting in safer, more reliable drinking water. Service providers now regularly monitor and report on drinking water quality, including chlorine residuals. In some communities, this has highlighted the need to optimise and improve water quality and disinfection. In addition, emergency works and new capital works have been implemented in dozens of communities. Engagement with communities is crucial, so local public health units have regular contact with communities, and participate with Department of Primary Industries (DPI) Water in 4–monthly inspections and reviews. http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/april-2016-volume-26-issue-2/safe-drinking-water-in-regional-nsw-australia/
I have no idea what happens re government monitoring of water in your place.
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Obviously in a dry there is a supply problem in some areas.
Can only really say to yours - say there are 2 individuals A and B in Australia, both healthy and neither with private health insurance, which many have in case you didn't know. A feels it's unfair that he should pay the public health levy on the money he earns. B doesn't mind as he sees it his contribution to the public good.
You are getting screwed if you live outside the municipal limits. I had a well installed in 1975 and other than occasional maintenance costs I've only paid for the electricity used to run the pump.
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