AWWA-20752 2014 Ensuring Safe Drinking Water: Learning from Frontline Experience with Contamination
Enjoy watching a couple of video presentations, featuring the authors, about "Ensuring Safe Drinking Water", and "Protecting Forests to Ensure the Quality of Our Drinking Water"
This book
presents 21 case studies—10 waterborne disease outbreaks, 7 cases of severe
chemical contamination, and 4 close calls—written largely from the perspective
of frontline personnel who experienced the events as they unfolded.
Safe drinking water is essential to human life. Ensuring Safe Drinking
Water: Learning From Frontline Experience with Contamination provides those who carry
responsibility for ensuring safe drinking water an opportunity to learn from
the experiences of others. This book presents 21 case studies—10 waterborne
disease outbreaks, 7 cases of severe chemical contamination, and 4 close
calls—written largely from the perspective of frontline personnel who
experienced the events as they unfolded. For each case, distinguished authors
Steve E. Hrudey and Elizabeth J. Hrudey have provided background, operational
details, illustrations, questions to ponder, lessons learned, and more, to
allow professionals to imagine themselves in these circumstances and see how
these experiences can help them in ensuring the safety of their own systems.
Ensuring Safe Drinking Water is essential reading for
operators, supervisors, foremen, managers, administrative officers,
commissioners, councilors, local officials, utility board members, regulators,
and public health agency personnel. Accessible and urgent, the book is intended
to spark discussion and exchange. Its true-life stories of how things can go
wrong lay out what’s at stake in the crucial work that water professionals
perform every day.
ISBN: 9781583219249
Author: Steve E. Hrudey, Elizabeth J. Hrudey
Publisher: American Water Works Association (AWWA)
Publication date: 2014
AWWA catalog no: 20752
Media Type: BOOK
Number of pages: 294