Animal waste, water quality and human health

• Main Author: Dufour, Al
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London IWA Pub 2012; Geneva World Health Organization; IWA Publishing
• Edition: 1
• Series: WHO Water Series
• Subjects: Animal droppings; Animal waste; Animals as carriers of disease; Enterobacteriaceae; Environmental health; Pathogenic microorganisms; Pollution; Public health; Water; Water quality; Waterborne infection; Zoonoses
• ISBN: 9781780401232; 178040123X; 9789241564519; 9241564512

Domestic animals contaminate recreational waters and drinking-water sources with excreta and pathogens; but this threat to public health is inadequately understood and is insufficiently addressed in regulations. More than 85% of the world's faecal wastes is from domestic animals such as poultry...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Contents -- Summary Statement -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Assessing the importance of zoonotic waterborne pathogens -- 3. Zoonotic waterborne pathogen loads in livestock -- 4. Zoonotic waterborne pathogens in livestock and their excreta - interventions -- 5. Transport of microbial pollution in catchment systems -- 6. Effectiveness of best management practices for attenuating the transport of livestock-derived pathogens within catchments -- 7. Exposure -- 8. Exposure interventions -- 9. Indicators, sanitary surveys and source attribution techniques -- 10. Comparative risk analysis -- 11. Epidemiological studies on swimmer health effects associated with potential exposure to zoonotic pathogens in bathing beach water - a review -- 12. Economic evaluation -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
• Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Summary Statement -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Assessing the importance of zoonotic waterborne pathogens -- 3. Zoonotic waterborne pathogen loads in livestock -- 4. Zoonotic waterborne pathogens in livestock and their excreta - interventions -- 5. Transport of microbial pollution in catchment systems -- 6. Effectiveness of best management practices for attenuating the transport of livestock-derived pathogens within catchments -- 7. Exposure -- 8. Exposure interventions -- 9. Indicators, sanitary surveys and source attribution techniques -- 10. Comparative risk analysis -- 11. Epidemiological studies on swimmer health effects associated with potential exposure to zoonotic pathogens in bathing beach water - a review -- 12. Economic evaluation -- Index