Protecting Groundwater for Health

ISBN-13: 9781843390794 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 704 str.

Oliver Schmoll

Opis

Protecting drinking-water resources is the first barrier against pathogens and sustances hazardous to health. Practitioners in dricking-water supply or surveillance - from the local and technical level up to senior management with other sectors, such as environment, land-use planning, or agriculture toweards safeguarding drinking-water sources. Protecting Groundwater for Health provides a structured approach to analysing hazards to graoundwater quality, assessing the risk they may cause for a specific supply, setting priorities in addressing these, and developing management strategies for their control. For health professionals, it thus is a tool for access to environmental information needed for such a process, and for professionals from other sectors, it gives a point of entry for understanding health aspects of groundwater management. This book prsents tools for developing strategies to protect groundwater for health by managing the quality of drinking-water sources. * Section I covers the natural science background needed to understand which pathogens and chemicals are relevant to human health, how they are transported in the sub-surface and how they may be reduced, removed or retarded. * Section II provides guidance for compiling information needed to characterise the drinking-water catchment area in order to assess health hazards potentially reaching groundwater. * Section III provides conceptional guidance on prioritising both hazards and management responses. * Section IV provides an overview of the potential management actions that may be taken to protect drinking-water sources. These begin with their integration into a comprehensive Water Safety Plan that covers all supply steps from catchment to consumer. * Section V provides an overview of measures to prevent pollution from human activities in the catchment, beginning with the overarching issues of policy, land-use planning and implementation for protecting g