Water Treatment and Pathogen Control: Process Efficiency in Achieving Safe Drinking-Water (Who Drinking Water Quality) - Hardcover

Kwok-Keung, Au; LeChevallier, M. W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9241562552 ISBN 13: 9789241562553

Publisher: World Health Organization, 2004

Synopsis

Contamination of drinking water by microbial pathogens can cause disease outbreaks and contribute to background rates of disease. There are many treatment options for controlling pathogens from drinking water. Finding the right solution for a particular supply involves choosing from a range of processes.

This book provides a critical review of literature on removal and inactivation of pathogenic microbes in water. It aims to guide water quality specialists and design engineers in selecting treatment processes to ensure the production of high quality drinking water. Water treatment and Pathogen Control is a supporting volume to WHO's Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality. It provides information on choosing appropriate treatment in relation to raw water quality, estimating pathogen concentrations in drinking-water, assessing the ability of treatment processes to achieve health-based water safety targets and identifying control measures in process operation.

Effective water safety management is possible through the development and application of 'Water Safety Plans' - as described in WHO's Guidelines. These Plans are supported by a quantitative understanding of how processes and actions affect water quality through application of risk assessment as outlined in this book.

About this title

Synopsis

Microbial contamination of drinking water supplies contributes to disease outbreaks and background rates of disease in developed and developing countries worldwide. This publication gives a critical review of some of the literature on removal and disinfection processes for microbial pathogens in drinking water supplies, including information on choosing appropriate treatment in relation to raw water quality, estimating pathogen concentrations in drinking water, assessing the ability of treatment processes to achieve health-based water safety targets and identifying control measures in process operation. This publication is a supporting volume to the WHOs Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality (3rd edition, 2004) which have established international standards for the quality of drinking water since the 1950s.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Health Organization
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9241562552
• ISBN 13: 9789241562553
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 131