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Framework for drinking water safety in Saint Lucia: health based targets

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posted on 2018-02-12, 15:11 authored by Alexandra McKie, Jamie Bartram, Jeni Colbourne, Brian Clarke, Adrian Theobalds
This 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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WEDC Conference

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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.

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© WEDC, Loughborough University

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2006

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This is a conference paper.

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WEDC_ID:9896

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  • en

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