Water Contamination Emergencies (eBook)

Chapter 1: Introduction: Themes and Objectives; Chapter 2: Safety, Security, (Un)certainty; Chapter 3: The Water Industry's Perspective of Water Contamination Emergencies; Chapter 4: The Customers' View on Water Contamination; Chapter 5: Achieving an Appropriate Balance? - An Ofwat Perspective; Chapter 6: Water Contamination: Case Scenarios; Chapter 7: Chemical Contamination of Water - Toxic Effects; Chapter 8: HPA Role on Health Risk Advice to Public Health Teams; Chapter 9: Preventing Drinking Water Emergencies - Water Quality Monitoring Lessons from Recent Outbreak Experience; Chapter 10: Water Safety Plans and Their Role in Preventing and Managing Contamination of the Water Supply; Chapter 11: The Use of Computational Toxicology for Emergency Response Assessment; Chapter 12: Risk Management Capabilities - Towards Mindfulness for the International Water Utility Sector; Chapter 13: Mass Spectrometry Screening Techniques; Chapter 14: The Utilisation On-line of Common Parameter Monitoring as a Surveillance Tool for Enhancing Water Security; Chapter 15: Risk Assessment Methodology for Water Utilities (RAM-WTM) - the Foundation for Emergency Response Planning; Chapter 16: Faster, Smaller, Cheaper: Technical Innovations for Next-Generation Water Monitoring; Chapter 17: A Dutch View of Emergency Planning and Control; Chapter 18: Water Distribution System Modelling: an Essential Component of Total System Security; Chapter 19: Strengthening Collaborations for Water-Related Health Risk Communications; Chapter 20: Risk Assessment, Perception and Communication - Why Dialogue is Politic; Chapter 21: Bouncing Back; Chapter 22: Poor Communication During a Contamination Event May Cause More Harm to Public Health than the Actual Event Itself; Chapter 23: Communication of Tap-water Risks - Challenges and Opportunities; Chapter 24: Improving Communication of Drinking Water Risks Through a Better Understanding of Public Perspectives; Chapter 25: UK Water Industry Laboratory Mutual Group: Progress and Achievements; Chapter 26: Recent Advances in Rapid Ecotoxicity Screening; Chapter 27: A Water Company Perspective; Chapter 28: Rapid Detection of Volatile Substances in Water Using a Portable Photoionization Detector; Chapter 29: Analysis Methods for Water Pollution Emergency Incidents; Chapter 30: Laboratory Environmental Analysis Proficiency (LEAP) Emergency Scheme; Chapter 31: Electronic attack on IT and SCADA Systems; Chapter 32: Incident Involving Radionuclides; Chapter 33: CBRN Issues; Chapter 34: Screening Analysis of River Samples for Unknown Pollutants; Chapter 35: Microbiological Risk and Analysis Issues in Water; Chapter 36: Reagentless Detection of CB Agents; Chapter 37: Be Prepared, the Approach in the Netherlands; Chapter 38: Overview of the Water Company Challenges; Chapter 39: Closing Remarks; Part 2: POSTERS; Monitoring of Organic Micro Contaminants in Drinking Water Using a Submersible UV/VIS Spectrophotometer; Removal of Humic Substances from Water by Means of Ca2+- Enriched Natural Zeolites; Protective Effects of Cathodic Electrolyzed Water on the Damages of DNA, RNA and Protein; Detection of 88 Pesticides on the Finnigan TSQ® Quantum Discovery Using a Novel LC-MS/MS Method; Water Safety Plans: Prevention and Management of Technical and Operative Risks in the Water Industry; Analysis of Aquifer Response to Coupled Flow and Transport on NAOL Remediation with Well Fields; Safe Drinking Water: Lessons from Recent Outbreaks; Prevention and Security Measures Against Potential Terrorist Attacks to Drinking Water Systems in Italy; Improved Understanding of Water Quality Monitoring Evidence for Risk Management Decision-making; Tools for the Rapid Detection of Pathogens in Mains Drinking Water Supplies; Detection and Confirmation of Unknown Contaminants in Untreated Tap Water Using a Hybrid Triple Quadrupole Linear Ion Trap LC/MS/MS System; "Mind the Gap" - Facilitated Workshop;