Water Supply

Volume 2 Number 3

2nd World Water Congress: Water and Health - Microbiology, Monitoring and Disinfection (Selected Proceedings of the 2nd World Water Congress of the International Water Association, held in Berlin, Germany, 15-19 October, 2001)

Contents

1–8

Assessment of the risk of infection associated with Coxsackie B viruses in drinking water

J.C. Vivier, M.M. Ehlers, W.O.K. Grabow and A.H. Havelaar

9–15

A sensitive, semi-quantitative direct PCR-RFLP assay for simultaneous detection of five Cryptosporidium species in treated drinking waters and mineral waters

R.A.B. Nichols, C.A. Paton, B.M. Campbell, J. Wastling and H.V. Smith

17–22

Enteric viruses in drinking water supplies

A.P. Wyn-Jones, J. Watkins, C. Francis, M. Laverick and J. Sellwood

23–28

Hygienic risk assessment by monitoring pathogens in municipal sewage

C.-H. von Bonsdorff, L. Maunula, R.M. Niemi, R. Rimhanen-Finne, M.-L. Hänninen and K. Lahti

29–38

Isolation and characterization of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and shiga toxin-converting bacteriophages from strains of human, bovine and porcine origin

E.E. Müller, M.B. Taylor, W.O.K. Grabow and M.M. Ehlers

39–46

Proficiency testing of Cryptosporidium and Giardia analyses - an Australian case study

D. Roser, N. Ashbolt, J. Ongerth and G. Vesey

47–54

Cryptosporidiosis and hotel swimming pools - a multifaceted challenge

R.Y. Cartwright and J.S. Colbourne

55–63

Risk assessment for drinking water production: assessing the potential risk due to the presence of Cryptosporidium oocysts in water

J.M. Laîné, S. Démotier, K. Odeh, W. Schön and P. Charles

65–71

Using turbidity and particle counts to monitor Cryptosporidium removals by filters

P.M. Huck, B.M. Coffey, W.B. Anderson, M.B. Emelko, D.D. Maurizio, R.M. Slawson, I.P. Douglas, S.Y. Jasim and C.R. O'Melia

73–80

Algae as surrogate indices for the removal of Cryptosporidium oocysts by direct filtration

M. Akiba, S. Kunikane, H.-S. Kim and H. Kitazawa

81–87

Sub-species typing among bovine C. parvum isolates by PCR-PAGE using a novel microsatellite + telomere primer scheme

S.A. Blasdall, J.E. Ongerth and N.J. Ashbolt

89–93

Evaluation of the ICR protozoan method and Method 1623 for detecting Giardia and Cryptosporidium in actual water samples

B.-M. Hsu, C. Huang and H.-H. Yeh

95–100

A fast and sensitive nucleic acid extraction method for the detection of Cryptosporidium by PCR in environmental water samples

J. Dellundé, S. Pina, J. Jofre and F. Lucena

101–106

C. parvum in Melbourne's catchments: investigating prevalence and developing high-resolution molecular detection tools

S. Haydon, X. Zhu, K. Hellier and R.B. Gasser

107–115

Estimating Giardia cyst viability using RT-PCR

M. Maux, I. Bertrand, C. Gantzer and J. Schwartzbrod

115–122

Determination of cytotoxicity and invasiveness of heterotrophic plate count bacteria isolated from drinking water

D. Pavlov, C.M.E. de Wet, W.O.K. Grabow and M.M. Ehlers

123–130

Automated event sampling for microbiological and related analytes in remote sites: a comprehensive system

D. Roser, J. Skinner, C. LeMaitre, L. Marshall, J. Baldwin, K. Billington, S. Kotz, K. Clarkson and N. Ashbolt

131–138

Comparison of decay rates of faecal indicator organisms in recreational coastal water and sediment

D.L. Craig, H.J. Fallowfield and N.J. Cromar

139–146

International Report: Health-related water microbiology

P.R. Hunter

147–157

International report: water and wastewater disinfection - trends, issues and practices

J.G. Jacangelo and R.R. Trussell

159–168

Depressed filtration ripening enhances removal of Cryptosporidium parvum

V. Gitis, R.C. Haught, R.M. Clark and E. Radha Krishnan

167–173

Numerical simulation of chlorine disinfection processes

D.J. Greene, C.N. Haas and B. Farouk

175–181

The spectral UV sensitivity of microorganisms used in biodosimetry

A. Cabaj, R. Sommer, W. Pribil and T. Haider

183–190

Removal methods of nematoda contained in the effluent of activated carbon

N. Matsumoto, T. Aizawa, S. Ohgaki, T. Hirata, K. Toyooka, T. Kanbayashi, Y. Tsutsumi and T. Hasegawa

191–198

Factors controlling nitrosamine formation during wastewater chlorination

W.A. Mitch and D.L. Sedlak

199–204

Studies on mutagenicity and disinfection by-products in river drinking water disinfected with peracetic acid or sodium hypochlorite

S. Monarca, D. Feretti, I. Zerbini, C. Zani, A. Alberti, S.D. Richardson, A.D. Thruston Jr, P. Ragazzo and L. Guzzella

205–211

A risk assessment case study in the suburbs of Paris: balancing health effects of Cryptosporidium parvum and bromate

V. Dilé-Mary, C. Galey, D. Gatel, J. Cavard and A. Havelaar

213–218

Comparison of different advanced disinfection systems for wastewater reclamation

M. Salgot, M. Folch, E. Huertas, J. Tapias, D. Avellaneda, G. Girós, F. Brissaud, C. Vergés, J. Molina and J. Pigem

219–226

Back to pre-disinfection of highly polluted waters

N. Narkis and A. Katz-Stoller

227–233

Destruction of helminth eggs (Ascaris suum) by ozone: second stage

Ma. T. Orta-de Velásquez, Ma. N. Rojas-Valencia and M. Vaca-Mier

235–242

THM formation during chlorination of treated municipal wastewater

E. Koukouraki and E. Diamadopoulos

243–250

An integrated approach to assess the causes of water quality failures in the distribution system of Caen

Y. Jaeger, V. Gauthier, M.-C. Besner, B. Viret, R. Toulorge, E. Lemaire, M.-R. de Roubin and J.-L. Gagon

251–257

Assessing the impact of dissolved organic carbon changes on disinfectant stability in a distribution system

C. Campos and Ph. Harmant

259–266

Preventing bacterial regrowth in old distribution systems without disinfection

W. Uhl, G. Schaule and R. Gimbel

267–274

Evaluation of magnetic ion exchange resin (MIEX®) and alum treatment for formation of disinfection by-products and bacterial regrowth

C. Chow, D. Cook and M. Drikas

275–281

Change of bacterial water quality in drinking water distribution systems working with or without low chlorine residual

B. Wricke, A. Korth, H. Petzoldt and M. Krüger

283–288

In situ examination of microbial populations in a model drinking water distribution system

A.C. Martiny, A.T. Nielsen, E. Arvin, S. Molin and H.-J. Albrechtsen