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Framework for drinking water safety in Saint Lucia: health based targets
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:11 authored by Alexandra McKie, Jamie Bartram, Jeni Colbourne, Brian Clarke, Adrian TheobaldsThis paper is part of a larger project in the Caribbean looking at the drinking-water supply provision for a community in
Saint Lucia using the Water Safety Plan approach. Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA) was used to assess
waterborne pathogen exposure in the community of Micoud and the potential for reduction of exposure by implementation
of the Water Safety Plan approach. The QMRA for Micoud illustrates that the Water Safety Plan has the potential to
significantly reduce the burden of disease within five years. This provisional QMRA was based solely on hazard assessment
and review of available literature and is the first step in a cycle of setting goals and identifying gaps in data to feed
back into the model increasing its accuracy in order that it may used as a tool for decision making and prioritisation of
improvements for sustainable drinking-water supply.
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- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
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- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
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MCKIE, A. ... et al, 2006. Framework for drinking water safety in Saint Lucia: health based targets. IN: Fisher, J. (ed). Sustainable development of water resources, water supply and environmental sanitation: Proceedings of the 32nd WEDC International Conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 13-17 November 2006, pp. 474-481.Publisher
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This is a conference paper.Other identifier
WEDC_ID:9896Language
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