{"id":776,"date":"2024-09-28T14:37:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T14:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/?page_id=776"},"modified":"2024-11-12T12:38:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T17:38:35","slug":"water-quality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/research\/water-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-water-quality\">Water Quality<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"581\" src=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/55\/files\/2014\/05\/WaterQuality1-e1398953829201.jpg\" alt=\"Boardwalk over water, with wetland grasses, and construction of mid-rise buildings in the background. \" class=\"wp-image-1346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2014\/05\/WaterQuality1-e1398953829201.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2014\/05\/WaterQuality1-e1398953829201-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2014\/05\/WaterQuality1-e1398953829201-768x436.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>With regards to human health, water-quality concerns focus on drinking water and water that people contact during recreational and personal activities, such as swimming or fishing (particularly eating fresh-caught fish). Drinking and wastewater systems are typically regulated; however, planners play an important role in protecting groundwater and surface water, since a variety of urban-planning and design-related features influence water quality, including the use of septic systems, management of wastewater services, location of storm sewers, disposal of toxic wastes and other pollutants, and level of runoff caused by urban development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\" id=\"h-health-and-place-initiative-hapi-nbsp-research-brief\"><strong>Health and Place Initiative (HAPI)&nbsp;Research Brief<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/55\/files\/2015\/11\/HAPI_ResearchBrief_WaterQuality_113015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Water Quality, Health, and Place<\/a>&nbsp;[PDF]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\" id=\"h-external-resources\"><strong>External Resources<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/research\/research-briefs\/research-brief-resources\/\" style=\"border-radius:0px\">View External Resources on Water Quality<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/55\/files\/2014\/05\/WaterQuality2-e1398953773927.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" data-id=\"1347\" src=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/55\/files\/2014\/05\/WaterQuality2-e1398953773927.jpg\" alt=\"Cement canal, surrounded by debris. \" class=\"wp-image-1347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2014\/05\/WaterQuality2-e1398953773927.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2014\/05\/WaterQuality2-e1398953773927-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2014\/05\/WaterQuality2-e1398953773927-768x434.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/55\/files\/2014\/05\/WaterQuality3-e1398953714321.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"581\" data-id=\"1348\" 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