Special Issue "Drinking Water and Health"

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A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2010

Special Issue Editor

Guest Editor
Dr. Nicholas Frederick Gray
Botany, School of Natural Science, Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
Website: http://tcdlocalportal.tcd.ie/pls/public/staff.detail?p_unit=naturalsciences&p_name=nfgray
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Interests: wastewater treatment; river pollution control and assessment; water treatment; carbon footprint analysis

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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The way in which drinking water is perceived and regulated is constantly changing, and this has been reflected in the past decade by a far more rigorous health-based approach in setting water quality guidelines. Changes in climate associated with global warming is seriously affecting sustainability of supplies as well as impacting on water quality. Advances in chemical and microbial analysis are revealing many new contaminants that were previously either undetectable or unknown; while toxicological and epidemiological evidence is continually altering our perception of risk from contaminants.

Water can become contaminated anywhere within the supply chain, at the resource (e.g., arsenic, fluoride, nitrate, organic micro-pollutants, endocrine-disrupting compounds, metals, algal toxins, radon and radionuclides), during treatment (e.g., aluminium, acrylamide, fluoride, disinfection by-products) or distribution (e.g., asbestos, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) and even within the home itself (e.g., metals). With pathogens found at all stages of the supply chain. Our understanding of these risks and how to manage them is continuously evolving with new innovative technological and management solutions being introduced in the constant battle to ensure water is safe to drink.

This special edition focuses on the current state of drinking water quality research and how this affects the health and welfare of those who drink it.

Dr. Nicholas Frederick Gray
Guest Editor

Submission

All manuscripts should be submitted to ijerph@mdpi.org with a copy to the Guest Editor. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. Papers will be published continuously (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are refereed through a peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page.

The Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health (IJERPH, ISSN 1660-4601) was launched in 2004 and is an international peer-reviewed Open Access monthly journal published by MDPI. This journal is covered by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences, Chemical Abstracts, Medline (PubMed) and EMBASE. The IJERPH maintains a rapid editorial procedure and a rigorous peer-review system.

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Keywords

  • drinking water
  • microbial pathogens
  • drinking water contaminants
  • water quality
  • risk assessment
  • water security
  • water safety
  • emergency response

Last update: 25 February 2010

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