Water Contamination Emergencies: Collective Responsibility
In the current international situation, the ability to deal effectively with water contamination emergencies is of rapidly increasing importance. The third in a series of conference proceedings, this book brings together contributions from leading scientists and experts in industry and academia. It offers an international perspective and develops the themes of the previous volumes entitled Water Contamination Emergencies: Can we cope? and Water Contamination Emergencies: Enhancing our...
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In the current international situation, the ability to deal effectively with water contamination emergencies is of rapidly increasing importance. This book brings together contributions from leading scientists and experts in industry and academia. It offers an international perspective and develops themes of the previous volumes entitled Water Contamination Emergencies: Can we cope? And Water Contamination Emergencies: Enhancing Our Response. The full range of potential chemical, microbiological and radiological contamination scenarios are addressed from the perspective of medical and health professionals, water companies and regulators, environmental protection professionals, risk and business continuity managers, emergency planners, local authorities, service and support providers, detection and equipment suppliers, disaster recovery specialists, water security experts, water distribution modelers and laboratories involved in round the clock emergency response. Emphasis is placed on the considerable effort required to prepare for and respond to an emergency. It is not sufficient for Individuals to simply identify their own responsibilities, they must also take action to establish effective and efficient working relationships with the other parties involved. In other words, they must take "Collective Responsibility".In summary, this book will provide readers with an up-to-date view of current strategies and the collaboration essential for an appropriate and timely response to water contamination emergencies.
Introduction: Themes and Objectives J. Gray 1Water Emergencies: Opening remarks G. Nichols 4Water is life: a view of organisational resilience in the Australian water industry K.I. Gill 9Online toxicity monitors and their use in distribution system and watershed early warning systems H. J. Allen R. C. Haught D. A. Macke 22Water supply security issues and trends B. Nguyen - presented Hao-Nhien Pham 36Consequence management within the Environmental Protection Agency's water security initiative B. C. Pickard 44Application of a risk based approach to security and integrity of assets - a regulators view M. J. Rink S. A. Evans 55Let's get real. Real world experiences with real-time on-line monitoring for security and quality. Detecting and responding to events. D. Kroll K. King G. Klein 68The organisational culture of managing incidents and risks in the water sector R. Bradshaw S. J. T. Pollard D. I. Jalba J. W. Charrois S. E. Hrudey N. J. Cromar 82A simulation tool for contaminant warning system design and evaluation W. Einfeld S. A. McKenna M. P. Wilson 117CBRN modelling: application to water contamination I.H. Griffiths 128Planning, preparedness and security of the alternative water supply K. Silcock 139Procedures for the decontamination of building plumbing systems S.J. Treado M.A. Kedzierski V.J. Gallardo 155Lessons learned from summer floods 2007. Phase 1 report - Emergency response prepared by Water UK's Review Group on flooding P. Mills 166Risk assessment methodology for water utilities - RAM-W™ - lessons learned J. J. Danneels 192Risk-based approaches to water quality management: integrating public health metrics inwater safety planning G. Howard 198How standards can assist the assessment of, recovery and prevention of future emergencies R. Greaves 207The XX edition of the Torino Olympic Games experience: planning for and responding to drinking water contamination threats R. Binetti P. Olivier L. Meucci L. Cappuccio 218Sensitive, selective and simple UV-spectrometry for contaminant alarm systems J. van den Broeke 229Fully automated instrumentation for nucleic acid testing in the field D.J.Squirrell M.A. Lee P. Wakeley 238Optimisation of NMR methodology for non-targeted detection of water contaminants A. J. Charlton J. A. Donarski B. D. May K. C. Thompson 245Preventing water contamination - a co-ordinated response H. Clay-Chapman 252Potential sources of man-made radiochemical contamination of water resources with special emphasis on the nuclear fuel cycle N. R. Pacey J. Cobb 260Rapid methods K.C. Thompson 267Processing and databasing spectroscopic analyses and its use in the elucidation of unkowns I. Pierson 293Handbooks to assist in the management of a radiological incident involving the contamination of drinking water supplies J. Brown B.T. Wilkins D. Hammond 296Robust on-line total organic carbon (TOC) analyser for security monitoring E. Milks 306Water UK emergency planning P. Fenton 313The Scottish Waterborne Hazard Plan M. McGuinness 316Research related to water security K. Fox 320Early warning and reports V. Murray 325OK, we've got a problem, so who do we tell? Inter-agency communication - a water company view D. A. Woolloff 337Review and evaluation of water concentration technologies for analysis by realtime PCR S.L. Cunningham B.M. Dowling 342Scientific and Technical Advisory Cell (STAC) - getting timely public health advice to multi-agency frontline responders R. Carr S. Ibbotson VSG Murray 353Communicating with the public during water contamination events: addressing vulnerable populations P. A. Nsiah-Kumi 360Medical preparedness for water contamination events P. L. Meinhardt 369Keeping the public on-side and maintaining reputation J. B. Shaw 383Sociological and psychological constraints to learning from failure B.H. MacGillivray 389Lessons learned from major contamination incidents - a discussion M. Furness 397Review of conference J. Gray 401List of posters 405Subject Index 407
