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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Drinking Water Risk Assessment and Management. Eric G. Reichard, Fred S. Hauchman & Ana Maria Sancha(eds). IAHS, 2000. £33.00 paperback; x+177pp. ISBN 1-901502-11-2.
This publication is comprised of some 40 technical papers and abstracts presented at the 2nd Symposium on ‘Assessing and Managing Health Risks fromDrinking Water Contamination: Approaches and Applications’, in Santiago, Chile (September 1998). The papers included in the publication are dominated by those from the Americas (North and South) with only a few from each of the other continents. The objective of the symposium was to create an interdisciplinary forum and this is reflected in the broad nature of papers chosen for inclusion.
The papers presented are considered under six discrete headings, and although the first, Arsenic in Drinking Water, maybe rather specific and attract a more focused readership, the other sections address issues of wider interest to those involved with the health risks to drinking water supplies. The publication has managed to achieve a good balance between case histories and solutions, derived principally from Water Supply/Quality practitioners and others with a stronger research emphasis. In addition the publication has managed to integrate, for most sections, papers which address these issues for both countries which are relatively well developed in terms of drinking water quality management through to those which are still developing. Therefore, the scope of the papers include a comprehensive range of issues, which transcends mass chronic contamination of populations through to rigorous cost benefit assessments for localized acute contamination risks.
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