Policy & Recommendations

• A Century of U.S. Water Chlorination and Treatment: One of the Ten Greatest Public Health Achievements of the 20th Century.

Position Statements

• AAP: Committee on Environmental Health and Committee on Infectious Diseases. Drinking Water From Private Wells and Risks to Children [PDF - 9 pages]. Pediatrics. 2009;123(6):1599-1605.

Position Statements

• NIH: Flowers CB, Mackar R. Well Water Should be Tested Annually to Reduce Health Risks to Children. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. 2009.

Technical Reports

• AAP: Rogan WJ, Brady, MT, the Committee on Environmental Health, and the Committee on Infectious Diseases. Drinking Water From Private Wells and Risks to Children [PDF - 17 pages]. Pediatrics. 2009;123(6):e1123-37.

Policy Briefs

• Braff-Guajardo E, Hecht K, Hampton KE, Brindis CD, Grumbach JM, Patel AI. Policy Brief: Fulfilling the Promise of Free Water in K-12 Schools. 2012.

Position Statements

• CSTE. Public Health Reporting and National Notification for Waterborne Disease Outbreaks [PDF - 8 pages]. 2009.
• CSTE. Improving Detection, Investigation, and Reporting of Waterborne Disease Outbreaks [PDF - 5 pages]. 2006.
• CSTE. Expanding Foodborne and Waterborne Outbreak Reporting to Include Other Enteric Disease Outbreaks [PDF - 3 pages]. 2006.

Clinical Reports

• AAP: Greer FR, Shannon M, the Committee on Nutrition, and the Committee on Environmental Health. Infant Methemoglobinemia: The Role of Dietary Nitrate in Food and Water. Pediatrics. 2005;116(3):784-6.

Case Definitions

• CSTE. Update to Cryptosporidiosis Case Definition [PDF - 6 pages]. 2010.
• CSTE. Revision of Cryptosporidiosis Case Definition [PDF - 5 pages]. 2008.

Position Statements

• CSTE. Public Health Reporting and National Notification for Cryptosporidiosis [PDF - 9 pages]. 2009.
• CSTE. Cryptosporidium Contamination of Finished Water from Public Water Supplies. 1994.
• CSTE. National Surveillance for Cryptosporidiosis. 1994.

Case Definitions

• CSTE. Update to Giardiasis Case Definition [PDF - 5 pages]. 2010.

Position Statements

• CSTE. Adding Giardiasis as a Nationally Notifiable Disease. 2001.