Water Quality: Guidelines, Standards, and Health : Assessment of Risk and Risk Management for Water-related Infectious DiseaseThe 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. |
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... developing and developed countries worldwide. Water quality can have a major impact on health, both through outbreaks of waterborne disease and by contributing to the background rates of disease. Accordingly, countries develop water ...
... developing and developed countries worldwide. Water quality can have a major impact on health, both through outbreaks of waterborne disease and by contributing to the background rates of disease. Accordingly, countries develop water ...
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... development of guidelines and standards in terms of water-related microbiological hazards. It outlines the proposed framework and details the recommendations derived from an expert ... developing and developed countries worldwide principal.
... development of guidelines and standards in terms of water-related microbiological hazards. It outlines the proposed framework and details the recommendations derived from an expert ... developing and developed countries worldwide principal.
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... developing and developed countries worldwide principal starting points for the setting of water quality standards, including microbiological standards, are World Health Organization Guidelines (Box 1.1). These guidelines are, in large ...
... developing and developed countries worldwide principal starting points for the setting of water quality standards, including microbiological standards, are World Health Organization Guidelines (Box 1.1). These guidelines are, in large ...
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... developing countries, a point which is well illustrated in Chapter 16. 1.4.5. Public. health. status. There has been an increasing trend to reappraise the 'linear' presentation of risk assessment and associated risk management into a more ...
... developing countries, a point which is well illustrated in Chapter 16. 1.4.5. Public. health. status. There has been an increasing trend to reappraise the 'linear' presentation of risk assessment and associated risk management into a more ...
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... developing and developed countries. However, until recently, there has been a trend in some quarters to believe that drinking water in more industrially developed countries was the cause of little disease and that infectious disease in ...
... developing and developed countries. However, until recently, there has been a trend in some quarters to believe that drinking water in more industrially developed countries was the cause of little disease and that infectious disease in ...
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Water Quality: Guidelines, Standards & Health Lorna Fewtrell,Jamie Bartram No preview available - 2001 |
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