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Urban Water Security: Managing Risks

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Urban Water Security: Managing Risks

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UNESCO-IHP

Urban Water Security: Managing Risks

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Urban Water Security: Managing Risks book

UNESCO-IHP
Edited ByBlanca Jiménez, Joan Rose
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2008
eBook Published 15 December 2008
Pub. Location London
Imprint CRC Press
DOI https://doi.org/10.1201/9780203881620
Pages 324
eBook ISBN 9780429206993
Subjects Engineering & Technology
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Jiménez, B., & Rose, J. (Eds.). (2008). Urban Water Security: Managing Risks: UNESCO-IHP (1st ed.). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780203881620

ABSTRACT

Understanding the impacts of urbanization on the urban water cycle and managing the associated health risks demand adequate strategies and measures. Health risks associated with urban water systems and services include the microbiological and chemical contamination of urban waters and outbreak of water-borne diseases, mainly due to poor water and s

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter Chapter 1|2 pages

Introduction

ByBlanca Jiménez, Joan B. Rose

chapter Chapter 2|17 pages

Drinking water – Potential health effects caused by wastewater disposal

ByTuula Tuhkanen

chapter Chapter 3|32 pages

Microbial health risks and water quality

ByJoan B. Rose, Samuel R. Farrah

chapter |81 pages

Chemical health risks

ByInés Navarro, Francisco J. Zagmutt

chapter |81 pages

Risk management in the urban water cycle: climate change risks

ByClaudia Sheinbaum Pardo

chapter |13 pages

Water source and drinking-water risk management

ByFrancisco Cubillo

chapter Chapter 7|50 pages

Wastewater risks in the urban water cycle

ByBlanca Jiménez

chapter Chapter 8|19 pages

Risks associated with biosolids reuse in agriculture

ByStephen R. Smith

chapter Chapter 9|16 pages

‘Closing the urban water cycle’ integrated approach towards water reuse in Windhoek, Namibia

ByBen van der Merwe

chapter Chapter 10|17 pages

Reducing risk from wastewater use in urban farming – A case study of Accra, Ghana

ByPay Drechsel, Liqa Raschid-Sally, Robert Abaidoo

chapter |8 pages

Drinking water – potential health effects caused by infiltration of pollutants from solid waste landfills

ByTuula Tuhkanen

chapter |14 pages

Exploding sewers: the industrial use and abuse of municipal sewers, and reducing the risk – the experience of Louisville, Kentucky US

ByGordon Garner

chapter Chapter 13|16 pages

Lessons learned: a response and recovery framework for post-disaster scenarios

ByDarren Saywell

chapter Chapter 14|11 pages

Managing urban water risks: managing drought and climate change risks in Australia

ByJ.M. Anderson
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