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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... potential to increase consistency in approaches to assessment and management of water-related microbial hazards was discussed by an international group of experts between 1999 and 2001. The group included professionals in the fields of ...
... potential to increase consistency in approaches to assessment and management of water-related microbial hazards was discussed by an international group of experts between 1999 and 2001. The group included professionals in the fields of ...
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... potential interventions in the context of overall environmental exposure to pathogenic micro-organisms. Thus, for example, if most exposure to a given pathogen occurs from non-water related sources and, say, only 5% of the burden of ...
... potential interventions in the context of overall environmental exposure to pathogenic micro-organisms. Thus, for example, if most exposure to a given pathogen occurs from non-water related sources and, say, only 5% of the burden of ...
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... potentially 'catastrophic' events (leading to large-scale outbreaks of disease) rather than only for background rates of disease during normal cycles of performance and efficiency. Both relate to the recognised phenomenon of short ...
... potentially 'catastrophic' events (leading to large-scale outbreaks of disease) rather than only for background rates of disease during normal cycles of performance and efficiency. Both relate to the recognised phenomenon of short ...
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... potential risk of infection present (although low coliform levels do not necessarily equate to low pathogen levels). The level of 2.2 TC/100ml is virtually the same as the standard expected for drinking water quality and was based on a ...
... potential risk of infection present (although low coliform levels do not necessarily equate to low pathogen levels). The level of 2.2 TC/100ml is virtually the same as the standard expected for drinking water quality and was based on a ...
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... potential risk. In the light of the reviews undertaken, it was concluded that potential risk should not, alone, automatically be interpreted as constituting a serious public health threat. This can be estimated only by determining ...
... potential risk. In the light of the reviews undertaken, it was concluded that potential risk should not, alone, automatically be interpreted as constituting a serious public health threat. This can be estimated only by determining ...
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Water Quality: Guidelines, Standards & Health Lorna Fewtrell,Jamie Bartram No preview available - 2001 |
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