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Water contamination emergencies :

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Water contamination emergencies :

[Book]

collective responsibility /

edited by John Gray, K. Clive Thompson.

Cambridge :

Royal Society of Chemistry,

©2009.

1 online resource (ix, 412 pages) :

illustrations

Special publication ;

no. 317

"The proceedings of the International Conference on Water Contamination Emergencies: Collective Responsibility held at the Royal Society of Medicine, London on 7-8 April 2008"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Water emergencies : opening remarks -- Water is life : a view of organisational resilience in the Australian water industry -- Online toxicity monitors and their use in distribution system and watershed early warning systems -- Water supply security issues and trends -- Consequence management within the Environmental Protection Agency's water security initiative -- Application of a risk based approach to security and integrity of assets : a regulators view -- Let's get real : real world experiences with real-time on-line monitoring for security and quality, detecting and responding to events -- The organisational culture of managing incidents and risks in the water sector -- A simulation tool for contaminant warning system design and evaluation -- CBRN modelling : application to water contamination -- Planning, preparedness and security of the alternative water supply -- Procedures for the decontamination of building plumbing systems -- Lessons learned from summer floods 2007, phase 1 report : emergency response prepared by Water UK's review group on flooding -- Risk assessment methodology for water utilities (RAM-W) : lessons learned -- Risk-based approaches to water quality management : integrating public health metrics in water safety planning -- How standards can assist the assessment of, recovery, and prevention of future emergencies -- The XX edition of the Torino Olympic Games experience : planning for and responding to drinking water contamination threats and incidents -- Sensitive, selective and simple UV-spectrometry for contaminant alarm systems -- Fully automated instrumentation for nucleic acid testing in the field -- Optimisation of NMR methodology for non-targeted detection of water contaminants -- Preventing water contamination : a co-ordinated response -- Potential sources of man-made radiochemical contamination of water resources with special emphasis on the nuclear fuel cycle -- Rapid methods -- Processing and databasing spectroscopic analyses and its use in the elucidation of unkowns -- Handbooks to assist in the management of a radiological incident involving the contamination of drinking water supplies -- Robust on-line total organic carbon (TOC) analyser for security monitoring -- Water UK emergency planning -- The Scottish waterborne hazard plan -- Research related to water security -- Early warning and reports -- Ok, we've got a problem, so who do we tell? : inter-agency communications, a water company view -- Review and evaluation of water concentration technologies for analysis by real-time PCR -- Scientific and technical advisory cell (STAC) : getting timely public health advice to multi-agency frontline responders -- Communicating with the public during water contamination events : addressing vulnerable populations -- Medical preparedness for water contamination events -- Keeping the public on-side and maintaining reputation -- Sociological and psychological constraints to learning from failure -- Lessons learned from major contamination incidents : a discussion.

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By leading experts, this is an up-to-date view of the strategies essential for an effective response to water contamination emergencies.

Royal Society of Chemistry

T3056

Water contamination emergencies.

9780854041725

Emergency management, Congresses.

Water-- Pollution-- Health aspects, Congresses.

Water-- Pollution-- Prevention, Congresses.

Water-- Pollution, Congresses.

Delivery of Health Care.

Disaster Planning.

Disasters.

Disciplines and Occupations

Disease Attributes

Disease.

Emergencies.

Environment and Public Health

Environment.

Environmental Exposure.

Environmental Monitoring.

Environmental Pollution.

Health Occupations.

Health.

Medicine.

Pathologic Processes.

Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Population Characteristics.

Public Health Practice.

Public Health.

Water Pollution.

Chemistry.

Civil & Environmental Engineering.

Emergency management.

Engineering & Applied Sciences.

Environmental Engineering.

Pollution & threats to the environment.

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING-- Environmental-- Water Supply.

Water-- Pollution-- Health aspects.

Water-- Pollution-- Prevention.

Water-- Pollution.

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GBCS

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TEC-- 010030

TQSW

Gray, J., (John),1947-

Thompson, K. C., (Kenneth Clive),1944-

International Conference on Water Contamination Emergencies(3rd :2008 :, London, England)

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