Inadequate drinking water and sanitation are amongst the world's major causes of preventable morbidity and mortality. This book provides a state-of-the-art review on approaches and methods used in assessing the microbial safety of drinking-water. It supports the rapidly emerging trend towards preventive management and a broader, system-wide outlook. It supports a framework for water safety which extends from resource to consumer and is based on rigorous risk assessment and risk management. The book offers guidance on the selection and use of available indicators alongside operational monitoring to meet specific information needs. It looks at potential applications of "new" technologies and emerging methods.
This book, which is the outcome of a shared WHO-OECD initiative since 1998, provides important background for the development of the third edition of the WHO Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality and provides information and guidance towards implementation of effective national and local approaches to drinking water safety based on them.
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Assessing microbial safety of drinking-water [pdf 1.52Mb]
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Foreword [pdf 190kb]
Chapter 1. Safe drinking water: An ongoing challenge [pdf 205kb]
Chapter 2. Introducing parameters for the assessment of drinking water quality [pdf 144kb]
Chapter 3. Assessment of risk [pdf 135kb]
Chapter 4. Catchment characterisation and source water quality [pdf 308kb]
Chapter 5 - Treatment efficiency [pdf 136kb]
Chapter 6 - Monitoring the quality of drinking-water during storage and distribution [pdf 112kb]
Chapter 7 - Surveillance and investigation of contamination incidents and waterborne outbreaks [pdf 133kb]
Chapter 8 - Analytical methods for microbiological water quality testing [pdf 223kb]
List of abbreviations [pdf 10kb]
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