Water Contamination Emergencies: Enhancing Our Response
Contamination of water supplies and the immediate availability of appropriate emergency responses to chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) events which result in contaminated water are becoming increasingly relevant and significant issues in the water industry and in the wider world. Consequently, new strategies and technologies are being constantly evolved and refined by leading experts in the field in order to achieve rapid and effective responses to water contamination...
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Contamination of water supplies and the immediate availability of appropriate emergency responses to chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) events which result in contaminated water are becoming increasingly relevant and significant issues in the water industry and in the wider world. Consequently, new strategies and technologies are being constantly evolved and refined by leading experts in the field in order to achieve rapid and effective responses to water contamination events.
Introduction : themes and objectives1Safety, security, (un)certainty3The water industry's perspective of water contamination emergencies5The customer's view on water contamination7Achieving an appropriate balance? - an Ofwat perspective19Water contamination : case scenarios27Chemical contamination of water - toxic effects31HPA role of health risk advice to public health teams39Preventing drinking water emergencies - water quality monitoring lessons from recent outbreak experience42Water safety plans and their role in preventing and managing contamination of the water supply53The use of computational toxicology for emergency response assessment62Risk management capabilities - towards mindfulness for the international water utility sector70Mass spectrometry screening techniques81The utilisation on-line of common parameter monitoring as a surveillance tool for enhancing water security89Risk assessment methodology for water utilities (RAM-W) - the foundation for emergency response planning99Faster, smaller, cheaper : technical innovations for next-generation water monitoring105A Dutch view of emergency planning and control116Water distribution system modelling : an essential component of total system security126Strengthening collaborations for water-related health risk communications135Risk assessment, perception and communication - why dialogue in politic145Bouncing back152Poor communication during a contamination every may cause more harm to public health than the actual event itself156Communication to tap-water risks - challenges and opportunities165Improving communication of drinking water risks through a better understanding of public perspectives172UK water industry laboratory mutual group : progress and achievements184Recent advances in rapid ecotoxicity screening192A water company perspective203Rapid detection of volatile substances in water using a portable photoionization detector208Analysis methods for water pollution emergency incidents216Laboratory environmental analysis proficiency (LEAP) emergency scheme229Electronic attack on IT and SCADA systems236Incident involving radionuclides240CBRN issues251Screening analysis of river samples for unknown pollutants265Microbiological risk and analysis issues in water267Reagentless detection of CB agents284Be prepared, the approach in the Netherlands292Overview of the water company challenges303Closing remarks310Monitoring of organic micro contaminants in drinking water using a submersible UV/VIS spectrophotometer313Removal of humic substances from water by means of Ca[superscript 2+] - enriched natural zeolites317Protective effects of cathodic electrolyzed water on the damages of DNA, RNA and protein320Detection of 88 pesticides on the Finnigan TSQ quantum discovery using a novel LC-MS/MS method324Water safety plans : prevention and management of technical and operative risks in the water industry328Analysis of aquifer response to coupled flow and transport on NAOL remediation with well fields331Safe drinking water : lessons from recent outbreaks333Prevention and security measures against potential terrorist attacks to drinking water systems in Italy337Improved understanding of water quality monitoring evidence for risk management decision-making350Tools for the rapid detection of pathogens in mains drinking water supplies355Detection and confirmation of unknown contaminants in untreated tap water using a hybrid triple quadrupole linear ion trap LC/MS/MS system360"Mind the gap" - facilitated workshop366
