Water Quality Surveillance (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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This guide is designed to help staff who undertake surveillance and monitoring of water supplies in developing countries. It provides simple information on how data may be collected and explains the use of equipment and inspection techniques. It also provides example forms that can be easily photocopied, guidance on how monitoring data can be used to improve water supplies and water handling, and how reporting of information can be used to initiate dialogue with communities.

Guy Howard is a Programme Manager at WEDC, Loughborough University

and was previously Research Fellow and Head of Overseas Projects at the

Robens Centre for Public & Environmental Heath, University of Surrey. He is

involved in the revision of the WHO Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality as

the Co-ordinator of the Monitoring and Asessment component of the Working

Group on Protection and Control of Water Quality. He was based in Uganda for

3 years working with the Ministry of Health on the DFID Research Project

(R6874) which produced many of the lessons reflected in the manual. He has

undertaken long and short-term assignments in over 20 low and middle-income

countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Central Europe, including working

for ActionAid in Sierra Leone in the early 1990s. The main focus of the editor's

work in the monitoring of water supplies and development of risk assessment

and risk management methods in relation to environmental health.