Protecting groundwater for health : managing the quality of drinking-water sources /
Schmoll, Oliver.
World Health Organization.
London : IWA Pub.,
2006.
This publication provides a structured approach to analyzing hazards to groundwater quality, assessing the risk they may cause for a specific supply, setting priorities in addressing these, and developing management strategies for their control. This book summarizes which pathogens and chemicals are relevant to human health, how they are transported, reduced, removed or retarded; provides practical guidance on characterizing the drinking-water catchment area and assessing potential health hazards; provides guidance on prioritising both hazards and management responses; presents key information on potential management actions and explains their integration into a comprehensive Water Safety Plan from catchment to consumer; and describes policy, land-use planning and implementation of pollution prevention, groundwater, with overviews of specific management approaches applicable to agriculture, sanitation, industry, mining, military sites, waste disposal and traffic.--Publisher's description.
"Published on behalf of the World Health Organization ..."--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
sect. 1. Scientific background.  Groundwater and public health -- Groundwater occurance and hydrogeological environments --  Pathogens : health relevance, transport and attenuation -- Chemicals : health relevance, transport and attenuation -- Socio-economic, institutional and legal aspects in groundwater assessment -- sect. 2. Understanding the drinking-water catchment.  Collecting information for characterising the catchment and assessing pollution potential -- Characterisation of the socio-economic, institutional and legal setting -- Assessment of aquifer pollution vulnerability and susceptibility to the impacts of abstraction -- Agriculture : potential hazards and information needs -- Human excreta and sanitation : potential hazards and information needs -- Industry, mining and military sites : potential hazards and information needs -- Waste disposal and landfill : potential hazards and information needs -- Traffic and transport : potential hazards and information needs -- sect. 3. Situation analysis.  Assessment of groundwater pollution potential -- Establishing groundwater management priorities -- sect. 4. Approaches to drinking-water source protection management.  Water safety plan : risk management approaches for the delivery of safe drinking water from groundwater sources -- Groundwater protection zones -- Sanitary completion of protection works around groundwater sources -- Hydrological management -- sect. 5. Approaches to pollution source management.  Policy and legal systems to protect groundwater -- Agriculture : control and protection -- Human excreta and sanitation : control and protection -- Industry, mining and military sites : control and protection -- Waste disposal and landfill : control and protection -- Traffic and transport : control and protection.
This publication provides a structured approach to analyzing hazards to groundwater quality, assessing the risk they may cause for a specific supply, setting priorities in addressing these, and developing management strategies for their control. This book summarizes which pathogens and chemicals are relevant to human health, how they are transported, reduced, removed or retarded; provides practical guidance on characterizing the drinking-water catchment area and assessing potential health hazards; provides guidance on prioritising both hazards and management responses; presents key information on potential management actions and explains their integration into a comprehensive Water Safety Plan from catchment to consumer; and describes policy, land-use planning and implementation of pollution prevention, groundwater, with overviews of specific management approaches applicable to agriculture, sanitation, industry, mining, military sites, waste disposal and traffic.--Publisher's description.
Drinking water
Groundwater
Wellhead protection.