Abstract
The provision of “pure and wholesome” drinking water remains a priority for the protection of human health. This chapter investigates the potential concern to human health that could occur if endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) coming from a range of different industrial, agricultural, and household sources, reached our drinking water, and the processes and regulations in place to prevent such an occurrence. The passage of water from wastewater to drinking water includes treatment before release into environmental waters and further procedures after abstraction from rivers and other sources before drinking water is finally produced. These two stages of treatment are described and their effectiveness in the removal of EDCs assessed, including a summary of studies measuring the concentration of many EDCs in drinking water throughout the world. The use of standards and guidelines to control the concentrations of chemicals, including EDCs, in environmental and drinking waters are outlined, and finally some suggestions are made as to how the presence of EDCs in the environment could be limited.
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