Water contamination emergencies [electronic resource] : collective responsibility / edited by John Gray, K. Clive Thompson.
By leading experts, this is an up-to-date view of the strategies essential for an effective response to water contamination emergencies.
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Royal Society of Chemistry,
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| Series: | Special publication (Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain)) ;
no. 317. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.