Health risks and cost-effective health risk management in wastewater use systems

Wastewater: Economic Asset in an Urbanizing World

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 39-54

  Keraita, Bernard ^a   Medlicott, Kate ^b   Drechsel, Pay ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Disability adjusted Life Years (DALYs); Multi barrier approach; Pathogens; Wastewater and health; Water quality guidelines; Who

Indexed keywords

COSTS; FILTRATION; HEALTH; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; MICROFILTRATION; PATHOGENS; PUBLIC RISKS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY;

DISABILITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT; MULTI-BARRIER APPROACH; OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE; RISK MANAGEMENT MEASURES; TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES; WATER QUALITY GUIDELINES; WATER QUALITY STANDARD;

HEALTH RISKS;

EID: 84943328438     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9545-6_3     Document Type: Chapter

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