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Summary
Summary
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. Water Contamination Emergencies: Enhancing our Response brings together contributions from leading scientists and experts from both academia and industry in the field of water contamination and emergency planning. The book covers a wide range of topics including responses to water contamination emergencies, impacts on public health and commerce, risk assessment, analysis and monitoring, emergency planning, control and planning and threats to the water industry. This book is ideal for specialists in the field of water contamination and emergency response planning, especially researchers and professionals in industry and government who require an authoritative and highly specialised resource on water contamination management. The reader will gain an appreciation of the activities supporting the development of responses to contamination events; emergency actions required in response to the contamination of drinking water; and incident management. Also discussed are the importance of communication between organisations and the public; consumer perceptions and the need for robust and rapid screening of samples taken in response to potential contamination events in order to help answer the key question "Is this water safe to drink?"
Table of Contents
Introduction: Themes and Objectives | p. 1 |
Safety, Security, (Un)certainty | p. 3 |
The Water Industry's Perspective of Water Contamination Emergencies | p. 5 |
The Customers' View on Water Contamination | p. 7 |
Achieving an Appropriate Balance? - An Ofwat Perspective | p. 19 |
Water Contamination: Case Scenarios | p. 27 |
Chemical Contamination of Water - Toxic Effects | p. 31 |
HPA Role on Health Risk Advice to Public Health Teams | p. 39 |
Preventing Drinking Water Emergencies - Water Quality Monitoring Lessons from Recent Outbreak Experience | p. 42 |
Water Safety Plans and Their Role in Preventing and Managing Contamination of the Water Supply | p. 53 |
The Use of Computational Toxicology for Emergency Response Assessment | p. 62 |
Risk Management Capabilities - Towards Mindfulness for the International Water Utility Sector | p. 70 |
Mass Spectrometry Screening Techniques | p. 81 |
The Utilisation On-line of Common Parameter Monitoring as a Surveillance Tool for Enhancing Water Security | p. 89 |
Risk Assessment Methodology for Water Utilities (RAM-W™) - the Foundation for Emergency Response Planning | p. 99 |
Faster, Smaller, Cheaper: Technical Innovations for Next-Generation Water Monitoring | p. 105 |
A Dutch View of Emergency Planning and Control | p. 116 |
Water Distribution System Modelling: an Essential Component of Total System Security | p. 126 |
Strengthening Collaborations for Water-Related Health Risk Communications | p. 135 |
Risk Assessment, Perception and Communication - Why Dialogue is Politic | p. 145 |
Bouncing Back | p. 152 |
Poor Communication During a Contamination Event May Cause More Harm to Public Health than the Actual Event Itself | p. 156 |
Communication of Tap-water Risks - Challenges and Opportunities | p. 165 |
Improving Communication of Drinking Water Risks Through a Better Understanding of Public Perspectives | p. 172 |
UK Water Industry Laboratory Mutual Group: Progress and Achievements | p. 184 |
Recent Advances in Rapid Ecotoxicity Screening | p. 192 |
A Water Company Perspective | p. 203 |
Rapid Detection of Volatile Substances in Water Using a Portable Photoionization Detector | p. 208 |
Analysis Methods for Water Pollution Emergency Incidents | p. 216 |
Laboratory Environmental Analysis Proficiency (LEAP) Emergency Scheme | p. 229 |
Electronic attack on IT and SCADA Systems | p. 236 |
Incident Involving Radionuclides | p. 240 |
CBRN Issues | p. 251 |
Screening Analysis of River Samples for Unknown Pollutants | p. 265 |
Microbiological Risk and Analysis Issues in Water | p. 267 |
Reagentless Detection of CB Agents | p. 284 |
Be Prepared, the Approach in the Netherlands | p. 292 |
Overview of the Water Company Challenges | p. 303 |
Closing Remarks | p. 310 |
Posters | |
Monitoring of Organic Micro Contaminants in Drinking Water Using a Submersible UV/VIS Spectrophotometer | p. 313 |
Removal of Humic Substances from Water by Means of Ca 2+ - Enriched Natural Zeolites | p. 317 |
Protective Effects of Cathodic Electrolyzed Water on the Damages of DNA, RNA and Protein | p. 320 |
Detection of 88 Pesticides on the Finnigan TSQ® Quantum Discovery Using a Novel LC-MS/MS Method | p. 324 |
Water Safety Plans: Prevention and Management of Technical and Operative Risks in the Water Industry | p. 328 |
Analysis of Aquifer Response to Coupled Flow and Transport on NAOL Remediation with Well Fields | p. 331 |
Safe Drinking Water: Lessons from Recent Outbreaks | p. 333 |
Prevention and Security Measures Against Potential Terrorist Attacks to Drinking Water Systems in Italy | p. 337 |
Improved Understanding of Water Quality Monitoring Evidence for Risk Management Decision-making | p. 350 |
Tools for the Rapid Detection of Pathogens in Mains Drinking Water Supplies | p. 355 |
Detection and Confirmation of Unknown Contaminants in Untreated Tap Water Using a Hybrid Triple Quadrupole Linear Ion Trap LC/MS/MS System | p. 360 |
"Mind the Gap" - Facilitated Workshop | p. 366 |
Subject Index | p. 369 |