Assessing and Managing Health Risks from Drinking Water Contamination:
Approaches and Applications

edited by Edited by Eric G. Reichard & Giovanni A. Zapponi

Publ. no. 233, (November 1995) ISBN 0-947571-69-8;  340 + xii pp.;  price £15.0

This publication is the proceedings of a symposium jointly organized by the International Commission on Groundwater (ICGW) of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) and the Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome. The objectives of the symposium were to explore drinking water contamination health risks from a multidisciplinary perspective and to exchange experiences in risk assessment and management from developed and developing countries. The symposium was a follow-up to a report work of an ICGW Working Group on Groundwater Contamination Risk Assessment*.
This proceedings volume provides an accurate representation of the technical presentations at the symposium, while at the same time presenting more detail on selected topics. It includes 28 extended papers from the sessions on :

and 33 extended abstracts from all the other sessions. The volume aims to serve as a useful interdisciplinary international reference on assessing and managing drinking water health risks. The titles and authors of the contributions are listed.

Contents

     

    PART A: Extended Papers

  1. Emerging issues in drinking water risk assessment in developed and developing countries
     
       
  2. Health effects from drinking water contamination: epidemiology and toxicology
     
       
  3. Multipathway exposure assessment
     
       
  4. Remediation of contamination
     
       

    PART B: Abstracts

  5. Causes and processes of contamination—surface water
     
       
  6. Regulatory issues
     
     
  7. Causes and processes of contamination—groundwater
     
     
  8. Pesticides and other non-point sources of contamination
     
       
  9. Treatment processes and distribution systems
     
     
  10. Use of computer models for risk assessment