Anthropogenic Lithium in the Environment

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Saving the Planet With Electric Cars Means Strangling This Desert (Laura Millan LOMBRANO, Bloomberg Hyperdrive News; June 11, 2019)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-11/saving-the-planet-with-electric-cars-means-strangling-this-desert

The spiralling environmental cost of our lithium battery addiction (Amit KATAWALA, Wired.com; 5 August 2018)

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lithium-batteries-environment-impact

Selected Research Articles:

The impact of the anthropogenic inputs of lithium contents in river and tap water (CHOI et al., 2019)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13376-y

Potential Environmental and Human Health Impacts of Rechargeable Lithium Batteries in Electronic Waste (KANG et al., 2013)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5920515/pdf/nihms485255.pdf

• Supporting Information for KANG et al., 2013

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5920515/bin/NIHMS485255-supplement-Supporting_Information.pdf

E-waste:  An assessment of global production and environmental impacts (ROBINSON, 2009)

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.452.1498&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Review of Lithium in the Aquatic Environment:  Distribution in the United States, Toxicity and Case Example of Groundwater Contamination (KSZOS and STEWART, 2003)

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Arthur_Stewart3/publication/8982592_Review_of_Lithium_in_the_Aquatic_Environment_Distribution_in_the_United_States_Toxicity_and_Case_Example_of_Groundwater_Contamination/links/5c990cc3a6fdccd4603ae813/Review-of-Lithium-in-the-Aquatic-Environment-Distribution-in-the-United-States-Toxicity-and-Case-Example-of-Groundwater-Contamination.pdf

Also…

2018 Edition of the Drinking Water Standards and Health Advisory Tables (U. S. EPA)

https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2018-03/documents/dwtable2018.pdf

N. B.:  No Federal MCL standard for Lithium (Li) exists in U. S. Drinking Water.