Protecting Ground Water for Health : Managing the Quality of Drinking-water Sources.

Protecting Ground Water for Health : Managing the Quality of Drinking-water Sources.

Protecting drinking-water resources is a key barrier in preventing health effects from pathogens and toxic chemicals. Effective action builds on cooperation amongst practitioners in many fields - drinking-water supply, health environment, land-use planning, agriculture and many more. Protecting Grou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schmoll, Oliver
Other Authors: Howard, Guy, Chilton, John, Chorus, Ingrid
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Geneva : World Health Organization, 2006.
Subjects:
Drinking water > Quality.
Groundwater > Pollution > Prevention.
Wellhead protection.
Drinking water > Quality
Groundwater > Pollution > Prevention
Wellhead protection
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; Structure of this book; Acronyms and abbreviations; 1 Groundwater and public health; 2 Groundwater occurrence and hydrogeological environments; 3 Pathogens Health relevance transport and attenuation; 4 Chemicals Health relevance transport and attenuation; 8 Assessment of aquifer pollution vulnerability and susceptibility to the; 5 Socio-economic, institutional and legal aspects in groundwater assessment; 6 Collecting information for characterising the catchment and assessing; 7 Characterisation of the socio-economic, institutional and legal setting.

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