water Water Water water 2073-4441 MDPI 10.3390/w4020494 water-04-00494 New Books Received* Disinfection By-Products and Human Health. Edited by Steve E. Hrudey and Jeffrey W.A. Charrois, IWA Publishing, 2012; 304 pages. Price: US$ 178.20/£ 99.00 ISBN 978–1–843–39519–5 Lin Shu-Kun MDPI, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland; Email: lin@mdpi.com 18 05 2012 06 2012 4 2 494 495 16 05 2012 © 2012 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. 2012

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Disinfection By-Products and Human Health is based on contributions from speakers who participated in May 2011 workshops on Disinfection By-Products (DBPs) and Human Health at Ozwater 11 in Adelaide, Australia or at an AWA sponsored workshop at the Curtin Water Quality Research Centre, Perth, Australia.

The contributions are prepared to facilitate communication with practitioners, rather than researchers, making use of overview illustrations rather than dense text or data tables. Each chapter concludes with up to 5 key findings that are take-home messages for practitioners.

Disinfection By-Products and Human Health is aimed specifically at drinking water professionals (engineers, chemists and public health professionals) working on the front lines of drinking water issues where they must encounter actual day-to-day issues of risk management concerning DBPs in relation to all the other regulatory and water quality issues they must manage.

Although a topic this complex is certainly not amenable to simplistic explanations, this book aims to provide drinking water professionals with a pragmatic assessment of the current evidence and emerging issues concerning DBPs and public health.

Disinfection By-Products and Human Health is an essential, practical and accessible guide for drinking water professionals, engineers, chemists and public health professionals.

Table of Contents

Disinfection By-Products (DBPs) as a public health issue

S. E. Hrudey and J. W. A. Charrois

Research overview, regulatory history and current worldwide status of DBP regulations and guidelines

I. Kristiana, J. W. A. Charrois and S. E. Hrudey

Managing DBPs under challenging conditions - a utility water quality manager's perspective

R. Walker

Halogenated DBPs and emerging issues

S. W. Krasner

Nitrogenous DBPs, formation, control and new frontiers

W. A. Mitch

Nitrogenous DBPs in drinking water: toxicity, regulation, analysis, occurrence and control

D. Liew, K. L. Linge, A. Heitz and C. A. Joll

NDMA and other nitrosamines - health risk assessment and management

J. M. Boyd, J. W. A. Charrois, R. Hofmann and S. E. Hrudey

Recent novel DBPs halogenated benzoquinones

Y. Zhao, W. Wang, S.E. Hrudey and X.-F. Li

Mutagen X: The evolving story of an extremely potent mutagen, its toxicology and human health risk assessment

A. R. Humpage

Toxicological evaluation of experimental data that informs the magnitude of cancer risk from DBPs

Richard J. Bull

Epidemiological inference and evidence on DBPs and human health

S. E. Hrudey

Concluding thoughts on DBPs, water quality and public health risks

S. E. Hrudey and J. W. A. Charrois

Index

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