The health risk associated with contamination of drinking water is of permanent concern for public and the professional communities. In recent years considerable advances have been made in understanding the problem. This volume reviews selected issues of drinking water quality and treatment written by leading authorities in their respective fields. One of the main features of the volume is its emphasis on the complementary tasks of chemists, biologists, toxicologists, engineers, legislators and politicians in combatting drinking water contamination.
The second part of this volume includes analysis of organic micropollutants, toxicity tests for assessing drinking water quality, the issue of algae toxins, vulnerability of groundwater to contamination from agricultural activities and quality changes due to application of ozone and chlorine dioxide.

Klappentext

Drinking water quality is a vast and complex subject. In addition to the topics already addressed in Volume 5, part B of this Handbook in 1995, this new volume discusses in an authoritative way the current key issues of drinking water quality and its control: - Toxicity tests for assessing drinking water quality - Toxicological approaches for developing drinking water standards - Analysis of organic micropollutants - Algal toxins and human health - Quality changes due to application of ozone and chlorine dioxide. The articles are written by leading experts and present the state of the art of drinking water research.
This volume will therefore be a valuable source not only for scientists and engineers, but also for decision-makers in government, environmental control and industry.

Inhalt

J. Hrubec: Introduction.- F.X.R. van Leeuwen: Toxicological Approaches for Developing Drinking Water Standards.- J.K. Fawell and H. Horth: Toxicity Tests for Assessing Drinking Water Quality.- R.A. Baumann and P. van Zoonen: Analysis of Organic Micropollutants in Drinkin Water.- I.R. Falconer: Algal Toxins and Human Health.- J. Hoigné: Chemistry of Aqueous Ozone and Transformation of Pollutants by Ozonation and Advanced Oxidation Processes.- C. Rav-Acha: Transformation of Aqueous Pollutants by Chlorine Dioxide: Reactions, Mechanisms and Products.