Healthy Recreational Waters: Sanitation and Safety Issues
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water and One Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2021) | Viewed by 38241
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recreational water activities offer substantial benefits to health and well-being. According to “WHO Guidelines for Safe Recreational Water Environments”, swimming pools, beaches, lakes, rivers, and spa waters provide environments for rest and relaxation, physical activity, exercise, and fun. Yet, they also present risks to health. Today, procedures set out by public health services based on solid data, risk assessment, and modelling are required in order to combine pleasure with safety in such waters. Each water body has its own identity and requires handling in line with its particular characteristics, which depend on the specific water parameters, the environmental factors of the geographical area in question, the human activities around the body of water, and sociological and human behavioral factors. Thus, to study recreational water environments, the scientific community and public health staff and structures must respond to both individual and complex challenges, including public awareness and education. The procedures and processes are far from simple, and the COVID-19 pandemic adds a further challenge.
This Special Issue invites research articles on all the aforesaid aspects of studying, handling, and managing recreational water bodies. We look forward to your contributions, which can address any one of these themes, as well as interdisciplinary approaches.
Prof. Dr. Athena Mavridou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- recreational waters
- pathogens
- COVID-19
- swimming pool
- bathing waters
- spa waters
- risk assessment
- disinfection
- modeling
- regulations
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