Guidelines for the safe use of wastewater, excreta and greywater. Volume 2: Wastewater use in agriculture
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.
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Table of contents, list of acronyms and abbreviations, preface, acknowledgements, executive summary
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Chapter 1. Introduction
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Chapter 2. The Stockholm Framework
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Chapter 3. Assessment of health risk
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Chapter 4. Health-based targets
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Chapter 5. Health protection measures
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Chapter 6. Monitoring and system assessment
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Chapter 7. Sociocultural aspects
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Chapter 8. Environmental aspects
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Chapter 9. Economic and financial considerations
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Chapter 10. Policy aspects
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Chapter 11. Planning and implementation
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References
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Annex 1: Good irrigation practice
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Annex 2: Summary of impacts of heavy metals and trace elements associated with wastewater irrigation
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Annex 3: Health impact assessment
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Annex 4: Glossary of terms used in the Guidelines
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©World Health Organization 2006
ISBN 92 4 154686 7 (set)
ISBN 92 4 154683 2 (v. 2)
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