Abstract
In this report on the revision of the 1946 edition of the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) drinking water standards, the Advisory Committee recommends minimum requirements for reaching the goals of protecting the health and promoting the well‐being of individuals and the community. This revision of the drinking water standards includes the following: limits concentrations of radioactivity in water in an effort to derive conservative values from the best information now; and, limits several new chemicals including a gross limit for the concentration of some types of synthetic chemicals, and the more common chlorinated hydrocarbon and organophosphate insecticides. The committee recommended that a method for continual appraisal and appropriate revision of the standards be developed, and that studies be continued by the USPHS on the relationship of the biological, chemical, physical, and radiological aspects of water quality to public health.
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