This comprehensive handbook provides an authoritative source of information on global water and health, suitable for interdisciplinary teaching for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. It covers both developing and developed country concerns.
It is organized into sections covering: hazards (including disease, chemicals and other contaminants); exposure; interventions; intervention implementation; distal influences; policies and their implementation; investigative tools; and historic cases. It offers 71 analytical and engaging chapters, each representing a session of teaching or graduate seminar.
Written by a team of expert authors from around the world, many of whom are actively teaching the subject, the book provides a thorough and balanced overview of current knowledge, issues and relevant debates, integrating information from the environmental, health and social sciences.
1. Introduction
Jamie Bartram and Rachel Baum
Part 1: Water-related Hazards
2. Introduction: Water-related Hazards
Stéphanie McFadyen and William Robertson
3. Bradley Classification of Disease Transmission Routes for Water-related Hazards
Jamie Bartram and Paul Hunter
4. Waterborne and Water-washed Disease
Mark D. Sobsey
5. Water-based Disease and Microbial Growth
Charles P. Gerba and Gordon Nichols
6. Water Related Insect Vectors of Disease
Arne Bomblies
7. Health Impacts of Water Carriage
Jo-Anne Geere
8. Hazards from Legionella
Richard Bentham
9. Toxic Cyanobacteria
Ron W. Zurawell
10. Chemical Hazards
Lisa Smeester, Andrew E. Yosim and Rebecca C. Fry
11. Radionuclides in Water
R. William Field
Part 2: Sources of Exposure
12. Introduction to Exposure Pathways
Katherine Pond
13. Drinking Water Contamination
Christine Stauber and Lisa Casanova
14. Recreational Water Contamination
Marc Verhougstraete, Jonathan Sexton and Kelly Reynolds
15. Water and Foodborne Contamination
Timothy R. Julian and Kellogg J. Schwab
16. Waterborne Zoonoses
Victor Gannon and Chad R. Laing
Part 3: Interventions (What do we do to Reduce Exposure)
17. Introduction: Interventions to Reduce Water-related Disease
Katherine Pond, Susan Murcott and David M. Gute
18. Drinking Water Supply
Jamie Bartram and Samuel Godfrey
19. Drinking Water Treatment
Donald Reid
20. Wastewater Treatment
Laura Sima
21. Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage
Maria Elena Figueroa and D. Lawrence Kincaid
22. Water for Hygiene
Aidan A. Cronin and Therese Dooley
23. Water Safety Plans
Katrina Charles
24. System Maintenance and Sustainability
Neil S. Grigg
25. Managing Chemical Hazards
Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson and Nicholas DeFelice
Part 4: Implementing Interventions
26. Introduction: Settings-based Approaches
Laura Linnan and Anna Grummon
27. Household-focused Interventions
Daniele Lantagne and David M. Gute
28. Water in Schools
Matthew C. Freeman
29. Water and Hydration in the Workplace
Bonnie Rogers and Susan Randolph
30. Healthcare Settings
Martin Exner
31. Water Supply in Rural Settings
Sara J. Marks and Kellogg J. Schwab
32. Integrated Urban Water Management
Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, Jochen Eckart, Kebreab Ghebremichael and Seneshaw Tsegaye
Part 5: Distal Influences
33. Introduction: Distal Influences
David M. Gute
34. Water Scarcity
Sarah Bell
35. Climate Change
Katrina Charles
36. Poverty
Leo Heller and Sandy Cairncross
37. Emergencies and Disasters
Andy Bastable and Ben Harvey
38. Population and Demographics
Carl Haub
39. Water Re-use
Choon Nam Ong
40. War and Conflict
Barry S. Levy and Victor W. Sidel
Part 6: Policies and their Implementation
41. Introduction: Policies and Regulations on Water and Health
Michael J. Rouse
42. Integrated Water Resources Management
Kebreab Ghebremichael, Jochen Eckart, Krishna Khatri and Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy
43. International Policy
Jamie Bartram, Georgia Kayser, Bruce Gordon and Felix Dodds
44. Drinking Water Quality Regulations
Katrina Charles and Katherine Pond
45. Recreational Outdoor Water Regulations
Julie Kinzelman
46. Swimming Pool Regulations
Katherine Pond and Lowell Lewis
47. Wastewater Regulations
Laura Sima
48. Water Charges and Subsidies
Richard Franceys
49. Water Exchange Systems
Srinivas Sridharan, Dani J. Barrington and Stephen Saunders
50. Information in Water and Health
Pamela Furniss
51. The Human Rights Framework for Water Services
Inga T. Winkler and Virginia Roaf
52. Menstrual Hygiene Management and WASH
Marni Sommer and Bethany A. Caruso
53. Health Impact Assessment
Lorna Fewtrell
Part 7: Investigative Tools
54. Section Introduction: Investigative Tools
David Kay
55. Epidemiology
Karin Yeatts
56. Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment
Gertjan Medema
57. Burden of Disease Assessment
Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson
58. Water Monitoring and Testing
Huw Taylor
59. Indicators of Microbial Quality
Joe Brown and Phillip Grammer
60. Pollutant Transport Modelling
David Kay
61. GIS and Spatial Analysis
Jim Wright
62. Demand Assessment and Valuation
Marc Jeuland
63. Cost-benefit Analysis and Cost-effectiveness Analysis
Marc Jeuland
Part 8: Learning from History
64. Section Introduction: Learning from History
Peter A. Coclanis
65. Cholera Epidemic in Hamburg, Germany 1892
Martin Exner
66. The Discovery of the Aetiology of Cholera, Robert Koch, 1883
Martin Exner
67. Dr. John Snow and the Broad Street Pump
Rosalind Stanwell-Smith
68. The Arsenic Crisis in Bangladesh
Christine Marie George
69. Walkerton – Systemic Flaws Allow a Fatal Outbreak
Steve Hrudey and Elizabeth J. Hrudey
70. Milwaukee and the Cryptosporidium Outbreak of 1993
M. Stephen Gradus
71. Edwin Chadwick and the Public Health Act 1848 – Principal Architect of Sanitary Reform
Martin Exner
Biography
Jamie Bartram is Director of The Water Institute and Don and Jennifer Holzworth Distinguished Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
Associate Editors: Rachel Baum (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA), Peter A. Coclanis (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA), David M. Gute (Tufts University, USA), David Kay (University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK), Stéphanie McFadyen (Health Canada, Canada), Katherine Pond (University of Surrey, UK), William Robertson (Water Microbiology Consultant, Canada), and Michael J. Rouse (Independent International Consultant on Water Industry, UK).
The knowledge that water makes up approximately 60 percent of a human body indicates that life truly cannot exist without water. Writings of Hippocrates, as early as 400 BCE, detailed a connection between water and health. The first chapter of this book includes a chronological account of advances in water treatment that predate the germ theory and awareness of aesthetic and environmental hazards associated with water. Contributions to this volume are divided into eight major themes, which are then augmented, detailed, and embellished by a series of generally short paragraphs. These themes include water hazards, exposure pathways, interventions, tools used for investigation, and lessons learned from history. Water-based diseases are presented in multiple-page charts in chapter 5. Summary treatment charts include water toxins, hazards, and technologies. A historical retrospective on the 1854 investigation of the London cholera epidemic by Dr. John Snow is included, as Dr. Snow’s revelation connecting the Broad Street pump and the cholera outbreak is considered one of the greatest medical achievements. A map and a picture of the historic Broad Street pump are prominently included. Overall, the book’s chapters range from trivial to profound, but the references are replete for most submissions.
--R. M. Ferguson, Eastern Connecticut State University, March 2017 issue of CHOICE
