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Assessing microbial safety of drinking water : improving approaches and methods / edited by Al Dufour [and five others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- WHO drinking water quality series.
- WHO Drinking Water Quality Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drinking water--Microbiology.
- Drinking water.
- Drinking water--Standards.
- Drinking water--Health aspects.
- Drinking water--Contamination.
- Water quality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (298 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : IWA Publishing, 2003.
- Summary:
- Inadequate drinking water quality and poor sanitation have remained the world's major causes of preventable morbidity and mortality. In 1996 the OECD called for concerted action to improve the assessment and management of the world's sources of drinking water. This guidance document seeks to respond to this call. It is the product of a shared initiative between the OECD and the World Health Organization. It is a state-of-the-art review that will contribute to the revisions of the WHO's Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality. Assessing Microbial Safety Of Drinking-water has elements of both revolution and evolution. It is revolutionary in that it supports a rapidly emerging approach for a broader, system-wide management perspective. This is based on a risk management framework that has evolved from the traditional indicator concept to include multiple parameters and where consideration is also given to tolerable risk, water quality targets and public health status.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Safe Drinking Water: An Ongoing Challenge
- Chapter 2: Introducing Parameters for the Assessment of Drinking Water Quality
- Chapter 3: Assessment of Risk
- Chapter 4: Catchment Characterisation and Source Water Quality
- Chapter 5: Treatment Efficiency
- Chapter 6: Monitoring the Quality of Drinking Water During Storage and Distribution
- Chapter 7: Surveillance and Investigation of Contamination Incidents and Waterborne Outbreaks
- Chapter 8: Analytical Methods for Microbiological Water Quality Testing
- List of Abbreviations.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78040-219-8
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