Biblio:Guidelines for the safe use of wastewater, excreta and greywater. Volume 2: Wastewater use in agriculture

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Guidelines for the safe use of wastewater, excreta and greywater. Volume 2: Wastewater use in agriculture

report Jan 2006 ; 222 pages english

Ed. WHO - Genève - 3 édition
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Volume 1: Policy and Regulatory Aspects Volume 3: Wastewater and excreta use in aquaculture Volume 4: Excreta and greywater use in agriculture Sanitation safety planning: manual for safe use and disposal of wastewater, greywater and excreta Abstract:
Volume 2 of the Guidelines explains requirements to promote safe use concepts and practices, including health-based targets and minimum procedures. It also covers a susbstantive revisionof approaches to ensuring the microbial safety of wastewater used in agriculture. It distinguishes three vulnerable groups: agricultural workers, members of communities where wastewater-fed agriculture is practiced and consumers. It introduces health impact assessment of new wastewater projects. Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Stockholm Framework
Chapter 3. Assessment of health risk
Chapter 4. Health-based targets
Chapter 5. Health protection measures
Chapter 6. Monitoring and system assessment
Chapter 7. Sociocultural aspects
Chapter 8. Environmental aspects
Chapter 9. Economic and financial considerations
Chapter 10. Policy aspects
Chapter 11. Planning and implementation
References
Annex 1: Good irrigation practice
Annex 2: Summary of impacts of heavy metals and trace elements associated with wastewater irrigation
Annex 3: Health impact assessment
Annex 4: Glossary of terms used in the Guidelines

Keywords:

agriculture (CI) (DT) (ET) , sludge (CI) (DT) (ET)

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WHO - World Health Organization - Genève - Switzerland

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