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Dr G. William Page was educated at Princeton University and Rutgers University where he took a doctorate in Urban Planning. He is presently on the faculty of the Department of Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he teaches courses on quantitative research methods, computer applications, modelling regional systems, and water resources planning, as well as environmental planning. He is presently working on research projects to identify municipalities with characteristics which indicate a threat of toxic contaminants in their groundwater and a separate research project on the spatial and distributional relationships of trends in cancer mortality rates.

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William Page, G. Toxic contaminants in water supplies and the implications for policy. Environmentalist 4, 131–138 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02337288

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