Water Contamination Emergencies

Managing the threats - approaches, examples and solutions from German water supply; Consequences of the Japanese earthquake 2011 and the Fukushima power plant accident on the Japanese water environment including drinking water; A web-based early warning system for water treatment plants safety; Making risk management stick: reflections on risk governance in water utilities; Preventing drinking water outbreaks - operators converting hindsight into foresight; Water quality crisis at PWIK - case study; The use of jug filtration to remove radioactive and chemical contamination from drinking water; Tri- and tetra-chloroethylene in groundwater exploited by a municipal waterworks: numerical modelling and mitigative measures; The integration of online flow cytometry to the flexible risk assessment system at Zurich water supply; A novel, low cost, spectrophotometer probe for multi-parameter in-pipe on-line water quality measurements; Early warning systems for rapid detection of deliberate intrusion in drinking water systems; Monitoring of pipe wall deposits in drinking water distribution systems; Best practice protocols for response and recovery operations in contaminated water systems; HPA recovery guidance and advice for the remediation of the environment following a chemical incident; Public health risk of microbial intrusion events in distribution systems; What are the real implications on public health of water contamination events? Protecting the drinking water supply against CBRN threats - the STATUS project; Establishing a WHO corporate approach to emergencies; Preparing for the emergency - how to develop contingency plans with simulation models; Risk assessment for chemical spills in the river Rhine; Cyber security triage for small water utilities SAND2012-10831C; The smart grid as a public health protection tool; Development and use of a decision support system for the response to drinking water contamination events; POSTERS; Introduction of a method for genotyping Cryptosporidium to a water utility laboratory; Elimination of low-concentration pyrethroid pesticides in drinking water with a household water purifier and by boiling treatment; Performance of various water treatment processes for removal of hazardous levels of chemicals; Comparison of methods for the detection of culturable and vbnc Escherichia coli 0157:H7 in complex drinking water biofilms; Lead in drinking water: a public health perspective incident management of lead contamination in drinking water; Proactive crisis management; Statistical model for estimating pathogenic bacteria in streams; A GIS tool for the fast identification of drinking water abstraction points possibly reached by a contamination event; The molecular detection for the viability of Yersinia cells during shock chlorination a pilot scale study; Restoration of drinking water distribution systems by removing contaminated biofilms with different pipe cleaning methods; Rapid tests and laboratory methods for determination of chemical agents in drinking water; Development of online sensors for the detection and quantification of the microbial regrowth potential of drinking water; Online monitoring of drinking water with optical spectroscopy; Results of hydrodynamic water network cleaning on maintaining regulatory water quality; Analysis of fifteen trace elements in six spring water samples by ICP-MS and evaluation of their effects on human health;High chlorination effects on drinking water biofilms and deposits formed on plastic plumbing materials; Heterogeneous Fenton's reaction: a promising way for drinking water biofilm disinfection;Chemical and biological risks in the water sector - a thematic area in the European commission's ERNCIP; HPA recovery guidance and advice for the remediation of the environment followinga chemical incident; Particle counting for early detection of contaminants in drinking water; Carbon-zeolite composite materials in advanced drinking water treatment; Implementation of online monitoring stations to secure the IASI (Romania) drinking water supply; A compendium of sensors and monitors and their use in the global water industry; Development of an ESI-FAIMS/DMS system for rapid water analysis