Global Drinking Water Management and Conservation

1. Front Matter

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2. Waterborne Diseases and Watershed Protection

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      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction to Drinking Water Management

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      Pages 3-11

   3. Waterborne Disease Outbreaks and the Multi-barrier Approach to Protecting Drinking Water

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      Pages 13-31

3. Drinking Water Treatment Technology and Pricing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33

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   2. Water Treatment Technologies and Their Costs

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   3. Reverse Osmosis and Other Treatment Technologies

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      Pages 55-73

   4. The Theory of Water and Utility Pricing

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      Pages 75-114

4. Incorporating Risk in Decision-Making

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   2. Risk Assessment for Safe Drinking Water Supplies

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      Pages 117-151

   3. Introduction to Water Infrastructure Asset Management

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      Pages 153-174

   4. Computing a Model for Asset Management with Risk

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      Pages 175-196

   5. Threats to Human Health: Use of Chlorine, an Obsolete Treatment Technology

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      Pages 197-212

   6. Public Health and Lead Sampling Protocols for Drinking Water: A Critical Review

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      Pages 213-237

   7. Confronting the Problem of Lead in Drinking Water: What Can and Should Be Done

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      Pages 239-256

5. A European Case Study

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Drinking Water in Germany: A Case Study of High Quality Drinking Water

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      Pages 259-290

6. Back Matter

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This book discusses different drinking water treatment technologies and what contaminants each treatment method can remove, and at what costs. The production of drinking water requires adequate management. This book attempts to fill the existing knowlegde gap about (a) water treatment technologies and their costs, (b) risk assessment methods, (c) adverse health effects of chemical contaminants, (d) management protocols, and varying regulatory practices in different jurisdictions, and what successes are possible even with small financial outlays. Addressing water consulting engineers, politicians, water managers, ecosystem and environmental activists, and water policy researchers, and being clearly structured through a division in four parts, this book considers theoretical aspects, technologies, chemical contaminants and their possible elimination, and illustrates all aspects in selected international case studies.

Source-water protection, water treatment technology, and the water distribution network are critically reviewed and discussed. The book suggests improvements for the management of risks and financial viability of the treatment infrastructure, as well as ways toward an optimal management of the distribution network through the risk-based management of all infrastructure assets.

• Chemical Contaminants in Drinking Water
• Increasing Water Quality
• Lead Water Contamination
• Potable Water Quality
• Regulations and Water Policy
• Water Treatment Technology
• Watershed Management
• water policy
• water quality and water pollution
• water and health

• Department of Economics, Climate Change Lab Brock University, St Catharines, Canada

  Mohammed H. Dore

Mohammed Dore, who did his doctorate at the University of Oxford, UK, came to Brock University in 1981. He has received a number of research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Network Centre of Excellence in Canada, and the US National Science Foundation. With external funding he established his Climate Change Laboratory in 1996. The twin emphasis of his Lab has been training students to carry out high level policy oriented research that not only led to a number of theses but also to reports for various stakeholders who could implement the policy prescriptions. His research on climate change led him to drinking water policy issues. He has also worked as a consultant to both industry and government agencies; for example he has been hired as a contract consultant by Bell Canada; Environment Canada; Natural Resources Canada; The Municipality of Niagara; and the Capital Region District of Greater Victoria.

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