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

The National Water Research Institute, Fountain Valley, California, USA, provided financial sponsorship for this publication

This publication provides an 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. There was 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:

• Arsenic in drinking water
• Microbial contamination of drinking water
• Chemical contamination of drinking water
• Exposure assessment for drinking water
• Epidemiology of drinking water contamination
• Policy analysis and risk management of drinking water contamination

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