Assessing Microbial Safety of Drinking Water
Subtitle: Improving Approaches and Methods
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and World Health Organization
Contributors: World Health Organization
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789264099470
Subjects: Ecology; Euthenics; Nature and nurture; Adaptation (Biology)
Description: Contaminated drinking water contributes to disease in developing and developed countries worldwide.  This book, which is the outcome of a shared WHO-OECD initiative since 1998, provides a state-of-the-art review on approaches and methods used in assessing the microbial safety of drinking-water.  It supports a framework for water and offers guidance on the selection and use of available indicators alongside operational monitoring to meet specific information needs. It looks at potential applications of new technologies and emerging methods.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Chapter 1. Safe Drinking Water: An Ongoing Challenge; title: Chapter 2. Introducing Parameters for the Assessment of Drinking Water Quality; title: Chapter 3. Assessment of Risk; title: Chapter 4. Catchment Characterisation and Source Water Quality; title: Chapter 5. Treatment Efficiency; title: Chapter 6. Monitoring the Quality of Drinking Water during Storage and Distribution; title: Chapter 7. Suveillance and Investigation of Contamination Incidents and Waterborne Outbreaks; title: List of Abbreviation