From: Prof. Bruce Webb To: ; Subject: Rivers-List: New IAHS Red Book Date: 18 May 2000 11:11 Please find below details of a recently published IAHS 'red book': _____________________________________________________________________ INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON DRINKING WATER RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT Edited by: Eric G. Reichard, Fred S. Hauchmann & Ana Maria Sancha IAHS Publication no. 260 (published January 2000) in the IAHS Series of Proceedings and Reports. ISBN 1-901502-11-2; 178 + xiv pp.; price £33 This publication provides an interdisciplinary and international overview of current issues in drinking water risk assessment and management. It comprises 22 full-papers, plus abstracts of further papers, selected from the Second International Symposium on Assessing and Managing Health Risks from Drinking Water Contamination: Approaches and Applications, held at the University of Chile, Santiago, in September 1998. The goal of the meeting, like that of the first symposium held in Rome in 1994, was to bring together specialists from a variety of disciplines (including health and hydrological sciences) to gather and exchange information on drinking water risk assessment and management in both developed and developing countries. The Santiago meeting had a special focus on arsenic in drinking water, a topic of great importance in Chile, as well as in other parts of the world. The volume is divided into six sections and the titles and authors of the full-papers are listed below. 1 ARSENIC IN DRINKING WATER Estimate of the current exposure of the urban population of northern Chile to arsenic A. M. Sancha & P. Frenz Health risk and sources of arsenic in the potable water of a mining area A. Armienta, R. Rodríguez, O. Morton, O. Cruz, N. Ceniceros, A. Aguayo & H. Brust The removal of arsenic from drinking water and associated costs: the Chilean case A. M. Sancha, R. O'Ryan & O. Perez 2 MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION OF DRINKING WATER Absence of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in waters C. O. Belloso Microbial health risks in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) drinking water A. Howgrave-Graham & A. Robinson Drinking water, ecology, and gastroenteritis in New Zealand P. Weinstein, N. Russell & A. Woodward 3 CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION OF DRINKING WATER Data related uncertainties in the definition of wellhead capture zones S. E. Silliman & G. Mantz Coal mining activity and radium isotope contamination of river water in Silesia, Poland J. Pociask-Karteczka, J. Wojciech Mietelski, M. Jasiñska & J. Krupa Use of nitrogen isotopes to determine sources of nitrate contamination in two desert basins in California J. N. Densmore & J. K. Böhlke Stochastic transport of reactive pollutants in groundwater: effective parameters approach C. Espinoza Behaviour of contaminant plumes at the interface between the Pampeano and Puelche aquifers in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina J. Köhn, E. E. Kruse & J. E. Santos Downhole video analysis of water supply wells: problem identification and well rehabilitation M. L. Vaught & L. E. Bresler 4 EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT FOR DRINKING WATER Health risk analysis of the Rio de Janeiro water supply using Geographical Information Systems C. Barcellos Dermal absorption from short-term exposure to contaminated water K. T. Bogen & G. A. Keating 5 EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DRINKING WATER CONTAMINATION Iodine in drinking water and endemic goitre in mountainous and coastal zones of Albania V. Angjeli, R. Bukli, V. Petro, Y. Sarolli, E. Hashorva, T. Spirollari, F. Janila, S. Buta & E. Agolli Time series analysis as a framework for the characterization of waterborne disease outbreaks E. N. Naumova & R. D. Morris Analysis of non-affected populations exposed to chromium (VI) sources R. C. Rodríguez & M. A. H. Armienta 6 POLICY ANALYSIS AND RISK MANAGEMENT OF DRINKING WATER CONTAMINATION Benefit-cost analysis and decision-making under risk uncertainty: issues and illustrations R. S. Raucher, M. M. Frey & P. L. Cook Chlorinated solvents in drinking water in Lombardy: the need for and consequences of a change in Italian regulations O. Sapini, R. Soma, G. Catella & C. Confortini Fluorosis management programme in India: the impact due to networking between health and rural drinking water supply S. K. Andezhath & G. Ghosh Economic and legal aspects of drinking water supply in Russia N. B. Prokhorova, A. M. Chernyaev & Y. A. Pozdina Student involvement in water development/treatment in rural settings S. E. Silliman & L. H. Ketchum Jr RELATED TITLES IN THE SAME SERIES: GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION RISK ASSESSMENT: A GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING UNCERTAINTIES. A report by the Working Group on Groundwater Contamination Risk Assessment of the IAHS International Commission on Groundwater by Eric Reichard, Carl Cranor, Robert Raucher & Giovanni Zapponi Publ. no. 196 (1990), price £26.00 ISBN 0-947571-72-8 ASSESSING AND MANAGING HEALTH RISKS FROM DRINKING WATER CONTAMINATION: APPROACHES AND APPLICATIONS. Proceedings of a symposium held at Rome, September 1994 edited by Eric G. Reichard & Giovanni A. Zapponi Publ. no. 233 (1995), price £42.00 ISBN 0-947571-69-8 Please send orders and enquiries to: Mrs Jill Gash, IAHS Press, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 8BB, UK Tel: +44 1491 692442 fax: +44 1491 692448 e-mail: jilly@iahs.demon.co.uk *** The IAHS web site: http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwiahs/index.html *** **************************************************************** Professor Bruce Webb Professor of Physical Geography School of Geography and Archaeology Department of Geography University of Exeter Amory Building Rennes Drive EXETER EX4 4RJ UK E-mail: B.W.Webb@exeter.ac.uk Telephone: 01392 263334 (+44 1392 263334 from outside UK) Fax: 01392 263342 (+44 1392 263342 from outside UK) *****************************************************************