Animal waste, water quality and human health / / edited by Al Dufour [and three others].
"Domestic animals contaminate recreational waters and drinking-water sources with excreta and pathogens; but this threat to public health is inadequately understood and is insufficiently addressed in regulations. More than 85% of the world's faecal wastes is from domestic animals such as...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : Published on behalf of the World Health Organization by Iwa Publishing,, 2012. |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Emerging issues in water and infectious disease series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (488 pages) :; illustrations. |
| Notes: | "United States, Environmental Protection Agency." |
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Table of Contents:
- Summary Statement
- 1. Introduction / Jamie Bartram
- 2. Assessing the importance of zoonotic waterborne pathogens / Kumar Govind Suresh, Gary A. Toranzos, Ronald Fayer, Veeranoot Nissaparton, Remigio Olveda, Nicholas Ashbolt and Victor Gannon
- 3. Zoonotic waterborne pathogen loads in livestock / Edward R. Atwill, Xunde Li, Delia Grace and Victor Gannon / 4. Zoonotic waterborne pathogens in livestock and their excreta--interventions / Victor Gannon, Delia Grace and Edward R. Atwill
- 5. Transport of microbial pollution in catchment systems / Christobel Ferguson and David Kay
- 6. Effectiveness of best management practices for attenuating the transport of livestock-derived pathogens within catchments / David Kay, John Crowther, Christopher Kay, Adrian T. McDonald, Christobel Ferguson, Carl M. Stapleton and Mark D. Wyer
- 7. Exposure / Will Robertson and Gordon Yasvinski
- 8. Exposure interventions / Julie Kinzelman and Calum Mcphail
- 9. Indicators, sanitary surveys and source attribution techniques / Julie Kinzelman, Katharine G. Field, Hyatt C. Green, Valerie J. Harwood and Calum McPhail
- 10. Comparative risk analysis / Graham McBride, Tom Ross and Al Dufour
- 11. Epidemiological studies on swimmer health effects associated with potential exposure to zoonotic pathogens in bathing beach water--a review / Al Dufour, Timothy J. Wade and David Kay
- 12. Economic evaluation / Roy Brouwer and Stavros Georgiou
- Index.