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  2. VOC contamination of groundwater - Wikipedia

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    In 1982, the Marine Corps discovered volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in several drinking water wells that fed into two of the eight water systems. The sources were traced to tetrachloroethylene (PCE) from a two dry cleaners – one on base, the other off the base and trichloroethylene which had been used in vehicle maintenance on the base ...

  3. Drinking water quality standards - Wikipedia

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    Drinking water quality standards describes the quality parameters set for drinking water. Water may contain many harmful constituents, yet there are no universally recognized and accepted international standards for drinking water. Even where standards do exist, the permitted concentration of individual constituents may vary by as much as ten ...

  4. Freshwater environmental quality parameters - Wikipedia

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    Because almost all water bodies are dynamic in their composition, the relevant quality parameters are typically expressed as a range of expected concentrations. They include the natural and man-made chemical , biological and microbiological characteristics of rivers , lakes and ground-waters , the ways they are measured and the ways that they ...

  5. Water quality law - Wikipedia

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    Water quality laws govern the protection of water resources for human health and the environment. Water quality laws are legal standards or requirements governing water quality, that is, the concentrations of water pollutants in some regulated volume of water. Such standards are generally expressed as levels of a specific water pollutants ...

  6. Water quality - Wikipedia

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    Water quality refers to the chemical, physical, and biological characteristics of water based on the standards of its usage. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is most frequently used by reference to a set of standards against which compliance, generally achieved through treatment of the water, can be assessed.

  7. Volatile organic compound - Wikipedia

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    The VOC Solvents Emissions Directive was the main policy instrument for the reduction of industrial emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the European Union. It covers a wide range of solvent-using activities, e.g. printing, surface cleaning, vehicle coating, dry cleaning and manufacture of footwear and pharmaceutical products.

  8. Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability

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    Fees (Marine Parks Malaysia) (Validation) Act 2004 [Act 635] Biosafety Act 2007 [Act 678] Wildlife Conservation Act 2010 [Act 716] Environment. Environmental Quality Act 1974 [Act 127] Exclusive Economic Zone Act 1984 [Act 311] Water. Drainage Works Act 1954 [Act 354] Waters Act 1920 [Act 418] Water Supply (Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur ...

  9. Proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry - Wikipedia

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    Reaction is only possible if energetically allowed, i.e. if the proton affinity of R is higher than the proton affinity of H 2 O (691 kJ/mol [3]).As most components of ambient air possess a lower proton affinity than H 2 O (e.g. N 2, O 2, Ar, CO 2, etc.) the H 3 O + ions only react with VOC trace components and the air itself acts as a buffer gas.