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Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.Water Contamination EmergenciesCollective ResponsibilityBy John Gray, K. Clive Thompson The Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright 2009 The Royal Society of ChemistryAll rights reserved.ISBN: 9780854041725ContentsIntroduction: Themes and Objectives J. Gray, 1,Water Emergencies: Opening remarks G. Nichols, 4,Water is life: a view of organisational resilience in the Australian water industry K.I. Gill, 9,Online toxicity monitors and their use in distribution system and watershed earl warning systems H. J. Allen, R. C. Haught and D. A. Macke, 22,Water supply security issues and trends B. Nguyen presented by HaoNhin Pham, 36,Consequence management within the Environmental Protection Agency's water security initiative B. C. Pickard, 44,Application of a risk based approach to security and integrity of assets a regulators view M. J. Rink and S.A. Evans, 55,Let's get real. Real world experiences with realtime online monitoring for security and quality. Detecting and responding to events. D. Kroll, K. King and G. Klein, 68,The organisational culture of managing incidents and risks in the water sector R. Bradshaw, S. J. T. Pollard, D. I. Jalba, J. W. Charrois, S. E. Hrudey and N. J. Cromar, 82,A simulation tool for contaminant warning system design and evaluation W. Einfeld; S. A. McKenna and M. P. Wilson, 117,CBRN modelling: application to water contamination I. H. Griffiths, 128,Planning, preparedness and security of the alternative water supply K. Silcock, 139,Procedures for the decontamination of building plumbing systems S.J. Treado, M.A. Kedzierski, and V.J. Gallardo, 155,Lessons learned from summer floods 2007. Phase 1 report Emergency response prepared by Water UK's Review Group on flooding P. Mills, 166,Risk assessment methodology for water utilities RAMW lessons learned J. J. Danneels, 192,Riskbased approaches to water quality management: integrating public health metrics in water safety planning G. Howard, 198,How standards can assist the assessment of, recovery and prevention of future emergencies R. Greaves, 207,The XX edition of the Torino Olympic Games experience: planning for and responding to drinking water contamination threats R. Binetti, P. Olivier, L. Meucci and L. Cappuccio, 218,Sensitive, selective and simple UVspectrometry for contaminant alarm systems J. van den Broeke, 229,Fully automated instrumentation for nucleic acid testing in the field D.J. Squirrell, M.A. Lee and P. Wakeley, 238,Optimisation of NMR methodology for nontargeted detection of water contaminants A. J. Charlton, J. A. Donarski, B. D. May and K. C. Thompson, 245,Preventing water contamination a coordinated response H. ClayChapman, 252,Potential sources of manmade radiochemical contamination of water resources with special emphasis on the nuclear fuel cycle N. R. Pacey and J. Cobb, 260,Rapid methods K. C. Thompson, 267,Processing and databasing spectroscopic analyses and its use in the elucidation of unkowns I. Pierson, 293,Handbooks to assist in the management of a radiological incident involving the contamination of drinking water supplies J. Brown, B. T. Wilkins and D. Hammond, 296,Robust online total organic carbon (TOC) analyser for security monitoring E. Milks, 306,Water UK emergency planning P. Fenton, 313,The Scottish Waterborne Hazard Plan M. McGuinness, 316,Research related to water security K. Fox, 320,Early warning and reports V. Murray, 325,OK, we've got a problem, so who do we tell? Interagency communication a water company view D. A. Woolloff, 337,Review and evaluation of water concentration technologies for analysis by realtime PCR S.L. Cunningham and B.M. Dowling, 342,Scientific and Technical Advisory Cell (STAC) getting timely public health advice to multiagency frontline responders R. Carr, S. Ibbotson and VSG Murray, 353,Communicating with the public during water contamination events: addres