Water contamination emergencies [electronic resource] : monitoring, understanding and acting / editors: Ulrich Borchers, K. Clive Thompson.
This book is the proceedings of the International Conference on Water Contamination Emergencies: Monitoring, Understanding, Acting held in October 2010. The fourth in a series of conference proceedings this book develops themes from three previous, highly successful Water Contamination conferences i...
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| Series: | Special publication (Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain)) ;
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Drinking water safety: guidance to health and water professionals
- and other health protection issues on water safety; A novel approach for early warning of drinking water contamination events; Detection and identification of microbial contamination; Validation of a water quality monitoring platform in Barcelona drinking water treatment plant; Rapid confirmation of microbiological alerts using off-line molecular methods; Improving quality and saving dollars using real-time online water quality monitoring; Clean data and reliable event detection
- turning results from online sensors into information; Is it real or isn't it? Addressing early warning system alarms; Selection and prioritization of substances relevant for intentional drinking water contamination; The need for a joined up approach to the provision, management, security and delivery of alternative drinking water supplies; Communicating with the public about risk; Potable water contamination emergency:
- The analytical challenge; Some examples of the operation and benefits of the UK water laboratories' mutual aid scheme; Development of a rapid gross alpha & beta method for the water industry; A Scandinavian emergency for drinking water network contamination: the Nokia case study; Sensors and webservices for land & water management; Graph decomposition as operative tool in hydraulic system analysis
- security aspects; Efficacy of free chlorine against water biofilms and spores of Penicillium brevicompactum; Near real time monitoring of E. coli in water.