| Drinking Water Microbiology: Progress and Recent Developments 1990 Edition Contributor(s): McFeters, Gordon A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0387971629 ISBN-13: 9780387971629 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1990 Annotation: This comprehensive volume provides a state-of-the-art review of the analysis and treatment of drinking water for microbial contamination, the direct cause of diseases and infant mortality primarily in the third world, but affecting industrialized countries as well. As a result of growing concern over waterborne epidemics, the 1980s were dedicated as the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade by the United Nations. This book aims to summarize the results of this period of intensified research in a collection that will be of value to microbiologists, engineers, epidemiologists, sanitarians, health officials and scientists within governmental and international agencies as well as others interested in drinking water microbiology. Each chapter combines basic principles with recent research results, leading the reader from the microbiology of source water to that of drinking water treatment and distribution as well as the discussion of prominent pathogenic organisms, and concludes with testing methods, monitoring and statistical approaches. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Environmental - Pollution Control - Technology & Engineering | Food Science - General - Science | Life Sciences - Ecology |
| Dewey: 363.739 |
| LCCN: 89022041 |
| Series: Brock Springer Contemporary Bioscience |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.99 lbs) 502 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The microbiology of drinking water remains an important worldwide concern despite modem progress in science and engineering. Countries that are more technologically advanced have experienced a significant reduction in water- borne morbidity within the last 100 years: This reduction has been achieved through the application of effective technologies for the treatment, disinfec- tion, and distribution of potable water. However, morbidity resulting from the ingestion of contaminated water persists globally, and the available ep- idemiological evidence (Waterborne Diseases in the United States, G. F. Craun, ed., 1986, CRC Press) demonstrates a dramatic increase in the number of waterborne outbreaks and individual cases within the United States since the mid-1960s. In addition, it should also be noted that the incidence of water- borne outbreaks of unknown etiology and those caused by "new" pathogens, such as Campylobaeter sp., is also increasing in the United States. Although it might be debated whether these increases are real or an artifact resulting from more efficient reporting, it is clear that waterborne morbidity cannot be ignored in the industrialized world. More significantly, it represents one of the most important causes of illness within developing countries. Approxi- mately one-half the world's population experiences diseases that are the direct consequence of drinking polluted water. Such illnesses are the primary cause of infant mortality in many Third World countries. |