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Disinfection By-Products and Human Health is based on contributions
from speakers who participated in May 2011 workshops on
Disinfection By-Products (DBPs) and Human Health at Ozwater 11 in
Adelaide, Australia or at an AWA sponsored workshop at the Curtin
Water Quality Research Centre, Perth, Australia. The contributions
are prepared to facilitate communication with practitioners, rather
than researchers, making use of overview illustrations rather than
dense text or data tables. Each chapter concludes with up to 5 key
findings that are take-home messages for practitioners.
Disinfection By-Products and Human Health is aimed specifically at
drinking water professionals (engineers, chemists and public health
professionals) working on the front lines of drinking water issues
where they must encounter actual day-to-day issues of risk
management concerning DBPs in relation to all the other regulatory
and water quality issues they must manage. Although a topic this
complex is certainly not amenable to simplistic explanations, this
book aims to provide drinking water professionals with a pragmatic
assessment of the current evidence and emerging issues concerning
DBPs and public health. Disinfection By-Products and Human Health
is an essential, practical and accessible guide for drinking water
professionals, engineers, chemists and public health professionals.
Editors: Steve E. Hrudey, Professor Emeritus, Analytical &
Environmental Toxicology, University of Alberta, Canada, Jeffrey
W.A. Charrois, Director and Associate Professor, Curtin Water
Quality Research Centre, Curtin University of Technology,
Australia, Steve Hrudey is professor emeritus in analytical and
environmental toxicology in the University of Alberta's Faculty of
Medicine & Dentistry. He spent 13 years as a cabinet-appointed
member of the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board, the last four as
chair, and was the first non-lawyer to hold this position. During
this period, he served on 36 public hearing panels, 19 as chair of
the panel. In addition he has testified before senate committees in
Canada and the Legislative Council in Western Australia. Hrudey has
served on a number of high-profile expert panels, including the
Research Advisory Panel to the Walkerton Inquiry (2000-2002), the
Expert Panel on Safe Drinking Water for First Nations (2006), the
Technical Advisory Committee to the B.C. Minister of Health on
turbidity and microbial risk in drinking water (2007-2008, as
chair), the Expert Advisory Panel on Water Quality for Washington,
D.C., to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (2009-2011) and chair of
the Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel on Environmental and
Health Impacts of Canada's Oil Sands Industry (2009-2010). He has
also co-authored or edited nine books, including the widely
acclaimed book inspired by the Walkerton tragedy: Safe Drinking
Water - Lessons from Recent Outbreaks in Affluent Nations (IWA
Publishing, 2004). He has written 26 book chapters, 19 expert panel
reports, 163 refereed journal articles, 15 science discussions, six
media op-eds and 73 conference proceeding papers. Hrudey is the
2012 winner of the American Water Works Association A.P. Black
Research Award for contributions to water science and water supply.
This book is sponsored by Australian Water Association (AWA)
Drinking water provides an efficient source for the spread of
gastrointestinal microbial pathogens capable of causing serious
human disease. The massive death toll and burden of disease
worldwide caused by unsafe drinking water is a compelling reason to
value the privilege of having safe drinking water delivered to
individual homes. On rare occasions, that privilege has been
undermined in affluent nations by waterborne disease outbreaks
traced to the water supply. Using the rich and detailed
perspectives offered by the evidence and reports from the Canadian
public inquiries into the Walkerton (2000) and North Battleford
(2001) outbreaks to develop templates for understanding their key
dimensions, over 60 waterborne outbreaks from 15 affluent countries
over the past 30 years are explored as individual case studies.
Recurring themes and patterns are revealed and the critical human
dimensions are highlighted suggesting insights for more effective
and more individualized preventive strategies, personnel training,
management, and regulatory control. Safe Drinking Water aims to
raise understanding and awareness of those factors that have most
commonly contributed to or caused drinking-water-transmitted
disease outbreaks - essentially a case-history analysis within the
multi-barrier framework. It contains detailed analysis of the
failures underlying drinking-water-transmitted disease epidemics
that have been documented in the open literature, by public
inquiry, in investigation reports, in surveillance databases and
other reliable information sources. The book adopts a theme of
'converting hindsight into foresight', to inform drinking-water and
health professionals including operators, managers, engineers,
chemists and microbiologists, regulators, as well as undergraduates
and graduates at specialty level. Key Features: Contains details
and perspectives of major outbreaks not widely known or understood
beyond those directly involved in the investigations. Technical and
scientific background associated with case studies is offered in an
accessible summary form. Does not require specialist training or
experience to comprehend the details of the numerous outbreaks
reviewed. By providing a broad-spectrum review using a consistent
approach, several key recurring themes are revealed that offer
insights for developing localized, tailor-made prevention
strategies.
Safe drinking water is essential to human life. Ensuring Safe
Drinking Water: Learning From Frontline Experience with
Contamination provides those who carry responsibility for ensuring
safe drinking water an opportunity to learn from the experiences of
others. This book presents 21 case studies-10 waterborne disease
outbreaks, 7 cases of severe chemical contamination, and 4 close
calls-written largely from the perspective of frontline personnel
who experienced the events as they unfolded. For each case,
distinguished authors Steve E. Hrudey and Elizabeth J. Hrudey have
provided background, operational details, illustrations, questions
to ponder, lessons learned, and more, to allow professionals to
imagine themselves in these circumstances and see how these
experiences can help them in ensuring the safety of their own
systems. Ensuring Safe Drinking Water is essential reading for
operators, supervisors, foremen, managers, administrative officers,
commissioners, councilors, local officials, utility board members,
regulators, and public health agency personnel. Accessible and
urgent, the book is intended to spark discussion and exchange. Its
true-life stories of how things can go wrong lay out what's at
stake in the crucial work that water professionals perform every
day.
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