Urban Water Security: Managing Risks
UNESCO-IHP
1st Edition
Published on 24. March 2009
324 pages
978-1-134-01193-3 (ISBN)
Description
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
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-134-01193-3 (9781134011933)
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Persons
Blanca Jimenez, Instituto de Ingenieria, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico Joan B. Rose, Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research, Michigan State University, USA
Content
1. Introduction 2. Drinking water - Potential health effects caused by wastewater disposal 3. Microbial Health Risks and Water Quality; 4. Chemical Health Risks 5. Risk Management on the urban water cycle. Climate change risks 6. Water source and drinking water risk management 7. Wastewater risks in the urban water cycle 8. Risks Associated with Biosolids Reuse in Agriculture 9. Closing the Urban Water Cycle" Integrated Approach towards Water Reuse in Windhoek, Namibia 10. Reducing risk from wastewater use in urban farming - a case study of Accra, Ghana 11. Drinking water - potential health effects caused by infiltration of pollutants from solid waste landfills 12. Exploding sewers: the industrial use and abuse of municipal sewers, and reducing the risk-the experience of Louisville, Kentucky US 13. Lessons learned: a response and recovery framework for post-disaster scenarios 14. Managing urban water risks: Managing drought and climate change risks in Australia
