Surveillance of Drinking Water Quality in Rural Areas
- 171 pages
- 6 hours of reading
(The Water Decade initiative aimed to provide adequate and safe drinking water and basic sanitation for all. This book uses the experience of pilot projects promoted by the World Health Organization to assess the institutional requirements for conserving the capital investments in the rural water supply sector. In particular it examines the human and technical resources required for monitoring, maintaining and improving the safety of rural water supply services.Above all, this book is intended as a practical guide to improving the quality of service from small water supplies. It describes the essential minimum of reliable methods for monitoring water quality and discusses new cost-effective approaches to sanitary inspection of community water supplies.The book has been written with the needs of professionals in mind, for example, engineers, project managers, sanitary inspectors, environmental health officers and water quality control scientists)