Water is Life: A View of Organisational Resilience in the Australian Water Industry
Consequence Management within the Environmental Protection Agency's Water Security Initiative
Application of a Risk Based Approach to Security and Integrity of Assets – A Regulators View
The Organisational Culture of Managing Incidents and Risks in the Water Sector
A Simulation Tool for Contaminant Warning System Design and Evaluation
Planning, Preparedness and Security of the Alternative Water Supply
Procedures for the Decontamination of Building Plumbing Systems
Risk Assessment Methodology for Water Utilities - RAM-W™ Lessons Learned
Risk-Based Approaches to Water Quality Management: Integrating Public Health Metrics in Water Safety Planning
How Standards can Assist the Assessment of, Recovery and Prevention of Future Emergencies
Sensitive, Selective and Simple UV-Spectrometry for Contaminant Alarm Systems
Fully Automated Instrumentation for Nucleic Acid Testing in the Field
Optimisation of NMR Methodology for Non-Targeted Detection of Water Contaminants
Preventing Water Contamination – A Co-Ordinated Response
Rapid Methods
Processing and Databasing Spectroscopic Analyses and its use in the Elucidation of Unkowns
Robust On-Line Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Analyser for Security Monitoring
Early Warning and Reports
OK, We've got a Problem, so who do we tell? Inter-Agency Communications – A Water Company View
Review and Evaluation of Water Concentration Technologies for Analysis by Real-Time PCR
Communicating with the Public During Water Contamination Events: Addressing Vulnerable Populations
Keeping the Public On-Side and Maintaining Reputation
Sociological and Psychological Constraints to Learning from Failure
Lessons Learned from Major Contamination Incidents – A Discussion
Review of Conference
List of Posters
Subject Index
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https://doi.org/10.1039/9781847559319About this book
In the current international situation, the ability to deal effectively with water contamination emergencies is of rapidly increasing importance. The third in a series of conference proceedings, this book brings together contributions from leading scientists and experts in industry and academia. It offers an international perspective and develops the themes of the previous volumes entitled Water Contamination Emergencies: Can we cope? and Water Contamination Emergencies: Enhancing our response. The full range of potential chemical, microbiological and radiological contamination scenarios are addressed from the perspective of medical and health professionals, water companies and regulators, environmental protection professionals, risk and business continuity managers, emergency planners, local authorities, service and support providers, detection and equipment suppliers, disaster recovery specialists, water security experts, water distribution modellers and laboratories involved in round the clock emergency response. Emphasis is placed on the considerable effort required to prepare for and respond to an emergency. It is not sufficient for Individuals to simply identify their own responsibilities, they must also take action to establish effective and efficient working relationships with the other parties involved. In other words, they must take "Collective Responsibility". In summary, this book will provide readers with an up-to-date view of current strategies and the collaboration essential for an appropriate and timely response to water contamination emergencies.
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John Gray spent 22 years working in UK Water Companies on all aspects of water treatment, supply and analysis. This was followed by 13 years as a regulator before retirement in 2007 from his position as Deputy Chief Inspector (Operations) with the Drinking Water Inspectorate. He has been involved in improving the safety and security of drinking water supplies and has established links with other Government Departments, academia and research organizations involved in "homeland defence" issues both in the UK and internationally. He was closely involved in the development of the specialized analytical capability for the water industry. Actively involved with the Royal Society of Chemistry, John Gray was for six years a member of the Applications Committee followed by seven years with the Ethical Practices Committee. He chaired of the organizing committee of the three Water Contamination Emergencies conferences. Professor Thompson has 37 years experience in the management of environmental laboratories including those at Severn Trent and Yorkshire Water. He is currently Chief Scientist of ALcontrol UK, one of the largest contract water, soil, air and food analysis organizations in Europe. Since its inception in 1995, he has chaired the UK Water Laboratory Mutual Aid Group and been closely involved with the three associated sub-groups on emergency organic and radioactivity analysis and the LEAP emergency incident proficiency scheme. He was Secretary of the organizing committee of the three Water Contamination Emergencies conferences.