Management of Intentional and Accidental Water Pollution

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. POTENTIAL WATER QUALITY PROBLEMS POSED BY INTENTIONAL/ACCIDENTAL INTERVENTIONS

   • VESKA KAMBOUROVA

   Pages 1-10

3. QUANTITATIVE HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT RESULTING FROM GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION OF AN ABANDONED OPEN FIELD CHEMICAL WASTE BURNING SITE

   • GYULA DURA, SANDOR SZOBOSZLAI, BALAZS KRISZT, ZOLTAN PRIVLER, SANDOR RUZS-MOLNAR

   Pages 11-22

4. ACUTE AND CHRONIC TOXICITY OF CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS AND WARFARE TOXINS IN DRINKING WATER

   • HERMANN H. DIETER

   Pages 23-41

5. LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE CYANIDE AND HEAVY METAL ACCIDENTAL WATER POLLUTION IN THE TISA RIVER BASIN IN THE YEAR 2000

   • FERENC LÁSZLÓ

   Pages 43-50

6. ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION ON FORMER MILITARY SITES AND HAZARDS TO THE DRINKING WATER IN GERMANY

   • HANS-MARTIN MULISCH

   Pages 51-64

7. CONTAMINATION OF WATER BASINS OF ARMENIA BY PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS

   • ANAHIT ALEKSANDRYAN

   Pages 65-73

8. PESTICIDE RISK ASSESSMENT TO PROTECT AQUATIC SYSTEMS

   • DOMENICA AUTERI, MANUELA MANGIAROTTI

   Pages 75-84

9. IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BIOLOGICAL RISKS FOR WATER

   • JOAN B. ROSE

   Pages 85-101

10. BIOLOGICAL AGENTS LIKE THREAT CAUSING ONES OR TOOLS FOR DETECTING HAZARDS

    • ANDREA TÖRÖKNÉ

    Pages 103-111

11. MICROBIAL RESISTANCE TO CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS - AN ESSENTIAL PRECONDITION OF NATURAL ATTENUATION IN GROUNDWATER AQUIFER

    • ZDENEK FILIP, KATERINA DEMNEROVA

    Pages 113-127

12. SPECIFIC BIOLOGICAL THREATS IN WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN REGION

    • TALEB HAMID, REQIA SAGOU, RACHID AMANHIR

    Pages 129-136

13. IS ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION WITH POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS A PROBLEM FOR BULGARIA

    • TOMISLAV RIZOV, VESKA KAMBOUROVA, JORDAN SIMEONOV, IVAN I. BENCHEV

    Pages 137-150

14. DOES SURFACE WATER TREATMENT NEED SPECIAL MEASURES IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC?

    • VLADIMÍR BENCKO

    Pages 151-165

15. WATER MANAGEMENT IN REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA. PRINCIPAL THREATS

    • NICOLAE OPOPOL

    Pages 167-176

16. WATER MANAGEMENT IN MOROCCO

    • HAMID TALEB

    Pages 177-180

17. THE ROMANIAN NATIONAL ACCIDENTAL AND INTENTIONAL POLLUTED WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

    • LIVIU – DANIEL GALATCHI

    Pages 181-184

18. RISK FOR PREGNANT WOMEN DUE TO BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL POLLUTION OF DRINKING WATER

    • ANNA POTAPENKO

    Pages 185-191

19. CHEMICAL TERRORISM: THREATS TO WATER SUPPLIES

    • ALFRED BERNARD, CLAIRE DE BURBURE

    Pages 193-199

20. WATER FRAME DIRECTIVE – AN EFFECTIVE APPROACH FOR POLLUTION PREVENTION OF WATER SOURCES IN CASE OF EMERGENCIES AT RIVER BASIN LEVEL

    • GALINA GOPINA

    Pages 201-209

Scientists, representing the fields of agriculture, biodiversity, ecology epidemiology, medicine, microbiology, public health, toxicology, risk assessment, environmental protection and bioethics from 15 countries and 3 continents came together in May 8-12 2005, in Sofia, Bulgaria to discuss the future of water safety and security. The goals of the workshop included a discussion of the state of the science in identification of new research and approaches for water pollution events and communication of the management of water pollution and sustainability of water resources. Critical to management of accidental and intentional pollution events is the assessment of the risk, an understanding of the hazards and lessons learned from events which may lead to preventative management and control strategies. Public health protection will ultimately be improved by the ability to develop management frameworks which are flexible and adaptable to the specific region, country or watershed problems and concerns and allow for prioritization in the decision making. The integration of scientific information regarding the types of hazards the environmental fate of the chemical/biological, exposure pathways and human and ecosystem impacts may be implemented from both a qualitative or descriptive approach or using a more classical quantitative risk assessment paradigm. Thus the frameworks for assessing the risk and managing the risk may be seen as preventive, early warning and responsive.

• Assessment
• Groundwater
• Water pollution
• algae
• bacteria
• contaminants
• pesticide
• pollution
• polychlorinated biphenyls
• safety
• toxicity
• water policy
• water quality and water pollution

• National Institute of Environmental Health of “Jozsef Fodor” National Center for Public Health, Budapest, Hungary

  Gyula Dura

• National Center of Hygiene, Medical Ecology and Nutrition, Sofia, Bulgaria

  Veska Kambourova, Fina Simeonova

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