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Category : Bacterial pollution of water
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Bacterial Contamination at Huntington Beach, California
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Bacterial pollution of water
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Fact Sheet
Author: Environmental Health Perspectives
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Category : Environmental health
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Microbial Source Tracking: Methods, Applications, and Case Studies
Author: Charles HagedornPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 144199386X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 645
Book Description
Understanding the origin of fecal pollution is essential in assessing potential health risks as well as for determining the actions necessary to remediate the quality of waters contaminated by fecal matter. As a result, microbial source tracking (MST) has emerged as a field that has evolved and diversified rapidly since the first approaches were described only a decade ago. In response to the emergence of MST, there have been three large multi-laboratory method comparison studies (two in the US and one in Europe), plus numerous workshops, book chapters, and review articles dedicated to synthesizing information on the topic. Furthermore, a federal (USEPA) guide document describing the uses and limitations of MST methods was published in 2005, and a book dedicated to MST as an emerging issue in food safety was published in 2007. These documents provide a collective body of literature on MST that is both conflicting and complementary, often repetitious, and difficult to condense and interpret. In addition, it does not reflect the current diversity of MST approaches with different organisms, newer methodologies such as quantitative PCR, and anthropogenic chemicals, nor does it embrace the scope of MST research being conducted around the world. The three editors of the book, all with extensive MST expertise, have developed chapters and invited authors who reflect the rich diversity and truly international scope of MST. The unifying theme throughout the book is the design of more standardized approaches to MST that include performance criteria (regardless of method or organism), plus recommendations for field study design and MST implementation. The editors intend that this book will serve as a valuable reference for all those who are involved with
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2004: Justification of the budget estimates: U.S. Geological Service
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related AgenciesPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2166
Book Description
108-1 Hearings: Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations For 2004, Part 2, 2003, *
Author: The Fecal Bacteria
Author: Michael J. SadowskyPublisher: American Society for Microbiology Press
ISBN: 1555816088
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
A unique, holistic approach to understanding fecal bacteria. • Offers a balanced, integrated discussion of fecal bacteria and their presence and ecology in the intestinal tract of mammals, in the environment, and in the food supply. • Covers the use of fecal bacteria to examine and assess water quality to offer protection from illnesses related to swimming in or ingesting contaminated water, in addition to discussing their use in engineering considerations of water quality, modeling, monitoring, and regulations. • Includes perspectives from an internationally recognized group of experts that integrates medicine, public health, environmental, and microbiological topics. • Serves as a resource for microbiologists, clinicians, animal scientists, engineers, environmental scientists, food safety experts, water quality managers, and students.
The Last Beach
Author: Orrin H. PilkeyPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 082237594X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
The Last Beach is an urgent call to save the world's beaches while there is still time. The geologists Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper sound the alarm in this frank assessment of our current relationship with beaches and their grim future if we do not change the way we understand and treat our irreplaceable shores. Combining case studies and anecdotes from around the world, they argue that many of the world's developed beaches, including some in Florida and in Spain, are virtually doomed and that we must act immediately to save imperiled beaches. After explaining beaches as dynamic ecosystems, Pilkey and Cooper assess the harm done by dense oceanfront development accompanied by the construction of massive seawalls to protect new buildings from a shoreline that encroaches as sea levels rise. They discuss the toll taken by sand mining, trash that washes up on beaches, and pollution, which has contaminated not only the water but also, surprisingly, the sand. Acknowledging the challenge of reconciling our actions with our love of beaches, the geologists offer suggestions for reversing course, insisting that given the space, beaches can take care of themselves and provide us with multiple benefits.
Contaminated Sediments
Author: Jacques LocatPublisher: ASTM International
ISBN: 0803134665
Category : Contaminated sediments
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The main goal of the May 2003 symposium was to identify both established and innovative physico-chemical and biological methods used to characterize and evaluate properties and behavior of contaminated sediments, as well as the potential for their transfer. Papers from the symposium describe recent
Inside E.P.A. Weekly Report
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Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 996
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