Water quality : guidelines, standards, and health : assessment of risk and risk management for water-related infectious disease / edited by Lorna Fewtrell and Jamie Bartram.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

World Health Organization, Content Provider.

Fewtrell, Lorna.

Bartram, Jamie.

Series:

World Health Organization water series.

World Health Organization water series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water quality--Health aspects.

Water quality.

Water quality--Standards.

Waterborne infection.

Health risk assessment.

Physical Description:

xiv, 431 p. : ill., tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Water quality guidelines, standards, and health

Place of Publication:

London : IWA Pub., 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The potential to increase consistency in approaches to assessment and management of water-related microbial hazards was tackled by an international group of experts concerned with drinking water, irrigation and wastewater use and recreational/bathing water. It included individuals with expertise in public health, epidemiology, risk assessment, risk management, standards and regulation, communication and economics. Subsequently, a series of reviews was progressively developed and refined, which addressed the principal issues of concern linking water and health to the establishment and implementation of effective, affordable and efficient guidelines and standards. This book is based on these reviews, together with the discussions of the harmonised framework and the issues surrounding it. This book will prove invaluable to all those concerned with issues relating to microbial water quality and health, including environmental and public health scientists, water scientists, policy makers and regulators.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Disclaimer

1 Harmonised assessment of risk and risk management for water-related infectious disease: an overview

2 Guidelines: the current position

3 The Global Burden of Disease study and applications in water, sanitation and hygiene

4 Endemic and epidemic infectious intestinal disease and its relationship to drinking water

5 Excreta-related infections and the role of sanitation in the control of transmission

6 Disease surveillance and waterborne outbreaks

7 Epidemiology: a tool for the assessment of risk

8 Risk assessment

9 Quality audit and the assessment of waterborne risk

10 Acceptable Risk

11 A public health perspective for establishing water-related guidelines and standards

12 Management strategies

13 Indicators of microbial water quality

14 Risk communication

15 Economic evaluation and priority-setting in water and sanitation interventions

16 Implementation of guidelines: some practical aspects

17 Regulation of microbiological quality in the water cycle

18 Framework for guidelines development in practice

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y.

Notes:

"Published on behalf of the World Health Organization"--T.p. verso.

Includes index.

ISBN:

92-4-068147-7

1-280-11601-3

9786610116010

OCLC:

489562278