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Water contamination emergencies : collective responsibility /

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International Conference on Water Contamination Emergencies London, England
Otros Autores: Gray, J. (John), 1947-, Thompson, K. C. (Kenneth Clive), 1944-
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry, ©2009.
Colección:Special publication (Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain)) ; no. 317.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.