Management of Intentional and Accidental Water Pollution (NATO Security through Science Series / NATO Security through Science Series C: Environmental Security)

Scientists, representing the fields of agriculture, biodiversity, ecology epidemiology, medicine, microbiology, public health, toxicology, risk assessment, environmental protection and bioethics from 15 countries and 3 continents came together in May 8-12 2005, in Sofia, Bulgaria to discuss the future of water safety and security. The goals of the workshop included a discussion of the state of the science in identification of new research and approaches for water pollution events and communication of the management of water pollution and sustainability of water resources. Critical to management of accidental and intentional pollution events is the assessment of the risk, an understanding of the hazards and lessons learned from events which may lead to preventative management and control strategies. Public health protection will ultimately be improved by the ability to develop management frameworks which are flexible and adaptable to the specific region, country or watershed problems and concerns and allow for prioritization in the decision making. The integration of scientific information regarding the types of hazards the environmental fate of the chemical/biological, exposure pathways and human and ecosystem impacts may be implemented from both a qualitative or descriptive approach or using a more classical quantitative risk assessment paradigm. Thus the frameworks for assessing the risk and managing the risk may be seen as preventive, early warning and responsive. POTENTIAL WATER QUALITY PROBLEMS POSED BY INTENTIONAL/ACCIDENTAL INTERVENTIONS....Pages 1-10 QUANTITATIVE HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT RESULTING FROM GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION OF AN ABANDONED OPEN FIELD CHEMICAL WASTE BURNING SITE....Pages 11-22 ACUTE AND CHRONIC TOXICITY OF CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS AND WARFARE TOXINS IN DRINKING WATER....Pages 23-41 LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE CYANIDE AND HEAVY METAL ACCIDENTAL WATER POLLUTION IN THE TISA RIVER BASIN IN THE YEAR 2000....Pages 43-50 ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION ON FORMER MILITARY SITES AND HAZARDS TO THE DRINKING WATER IN GERMANY....Pages 51-64 CONTAMINATION OF WATER BASINS OF ARMENIA BY PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS....Pages 65-73 PESTICIDE RISK ASSESSMENT TO PROTECT AQUATIC SYSTEMS....Pages 75-84 IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BIOLOGICAL RISKS FOR WATER....Pages 85-101 BIOLOGICAL AGENTS LIKE THREAT CAUSING ONES OR TOOLS FOR DETECTING HAZARDS....Pages 103-111 MICROBIAL RESISTANCE TO CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS - AN ESSENTIAL PRECONDITION OF NATURAL ATTENUATION IN GROUNDWATER AQUIFER....Pages 113-127 SPECIFIC BIOLOGICAL THREATS IN WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN REGION....Pages 129-136 IS ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION WITH POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS A PROBLEM FOR BULGARIA....Pages 137-150 DOES SURFACE WATER TREATMENT NEED SPECIAL MEASURES IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC?....Pages 151-165 WATER MANAGEMENT IN REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA. PRINCIPAL THREATS....Pages 167-176 WATER MANAGEMENT IN MOROCCO....Pages 177-180 THE ROMANIAN NATIONAL ACCIDENTAL AND INTENTIONAL POLLUTED WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM....Pages 181-184 RISK FOR PREGNANT WOMEN DUE TO BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL POLLUTION OF DRINKING WATER....Pages 185-191 CHEMICAL TERRORISM: THREATS TO WATER SUPPLIES....Pages 193-199 WATER FRAME DIRECTIVE – AN EFFECTIVE APPROACH FOR POLLUTION PREVENTION OF WATER SOURCES IN CASE OF EMERGENCIES AT RIVER BASIN LEVEL....Pages 201-209 WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN AGRICULTURE: THE CASE OF LOMBARDY - NORTH ITALY....Pages 211-230 PRINCIPLES OF CHEMICAL WATER SAFETY FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PROTECTION....Pages 231-239 MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF DRINKING WATER SAFETY WITH ESPECIAL REGARD TO ITS ROLE IN FOOD SAFETY....Pages 241-248 PESTICIDES AND SURFACE WATER. THE ROLE OF MODELING AS A TOOL TO MANAGE CONTAMINATION....Pages 249-262 LOW-COST ADSORBENTS FOR THE REMOVAL OF NITROPHENOLS FROM WASTE WATERS....Pages 263-275 ACTUALIZING WATER ETHICS IN THE REGIONAL CONTEXT OF THE ARAB WORLD....Pages 277-310 ETHICAL ASPECTS OF WATER POLLUTION AND MANAGEMENT....Pages 311-320 ENSURING ADEQUATE REACTION IN CASE OF EXTREME WATER POLLUTION THROUGH TRAINING AND EDUCATION....Pages 321-329 POSSIBLE BIOLOGICAL THREATS FOR EUROPE....Pages 333-336 WATER SECURITY AND THE THREATS FROM BIOLOGICAL AGENTS OF CONCERN....Pages 337-342 Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Management of Intentional and Accidental Water Pollution, Sofia, Bulgaria, 8-12 May 2005