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In March of 1975, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) under the provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SWDA, 1974), proposed the National Interim Primary Drinking Water Regulations (NIPDWR, 1977) based upon the concept that water destined for human consumption should be free from physical, chemical, radiological and microbiological contamination in accordance with drinking water standards set by the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) in 1962. Amendments to the NIPDWR were added in 1976, 1979, and 1980 for organic and inorganic chemicals, radionuclides, and microbiological contaminants.
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Levy, R.V. (1990). Invertebrates and Associated Bacteria in Drinking Water Distribution Lines. In: McFeters, G.A. (eds) Drinking Water Microbiology. Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4464-6_11
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