Water contamination emergencies : can we cope? /
Contamination of water supplies, whether by chemical, biological or radioactive agents, requires a rapid and effective response in order to reduce or avoid impact on the environment or consumers. Using seven major incident case studies (including the Milwaukee Cryptosporidium incident, Chernobyl and...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] :
Royal Society of Chemistry,
©2004.
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Colección: | Special publication (Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain)) ;
no. 293. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The city of Milwaukee crytosporidium outbreak : what really happened and how vulnerable are we?
- The wem incident
- The Hungerford fish mortality
- The foot and mouth disease outbreak 2001
- Burncrooks diesel incident
- Problems, perceptions and perfection : the role of the drinking water inspectorate in water quality incidents and emergencies
- Dealing with company, public and media perception
- Water related chemical incidents and their toxicological management
- Water and public health
- Environment agency analysis overview on contamination monitoring
- Contamination monitoring : screening vs targeted analysis
- Field and laboratory analysis for detection of unknown deliberately released contaminants
- Microbiological analysis : how soon can we have the results?
- Rapid toxkit microbiotests for water contamination emergencies
- Overview of handling emergencies : some cautionary tales
- Radiological issues
- Communications
- Testing the system : exercise is good for you!
- Can we cope?