Risk-Based Framework for the Development of Public Health Guidance for Decentralized Non-Potable Water Systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (8) ◽  
pp. 3799-3809 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sybil Sharvelle ◽  
Nicholas Ashbolt ◽  
Edward Clerico ◽  
Robert Holquist ◽  
Harold Levernz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Potable Water ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Health Guidance

scholarly journals NICE public health guidance update

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 667-669
Author(s):  
Johanna Hulme ◽  
Ruth Garnett ◽  
Louise Picton ◽  
Fiona Glen ◽  
Gillian Leng
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Guidance

scholarly journals MUWS (Microbiology in Urban Water Systems) – an interdisciplinary approach to study microbial communities in urban water systems

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Deines ◽  
R. Sekar ◽  
H. S. Jensen ◽  
S. Tait ◽  
J. B. Boxall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Ecology ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Water Distribution ◽  
Potable Water ◽  
Water Distribution Systems ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Infrastructure Systems ◽  
Urban Water Systems ◽  
Sewer Networks

Abstract. Microbiology in Urban Water Systems (MUWS) is an integrated project, which aims to characterize the microorganisms found in both potable water distribution systems and sewer networks. These large infrastructure systems have a major impact on our quality of life, and despite the importance of these systems as major components of the water cycle, little is known about their microbial ecology. Potable water distribution systems and sewer networks are both large, highly interconnected, dynamic, subject to time and varying inputs and demands, and difficult to control. Their performance also faces increasing loading due to increasing urbanization and longer-term environmental changes. Therefore, understanding the link between microbial ecology and any potential impacts on short or long-term engineering performance within urban water infrastructure systems is important. By combining the strengths and research expertise of civil-, biochemical engineers and molecular microbial ecologists, we ultimately aim to link microbial community abundance, diversity and function to physical and engineering variables so that novel insights into the performance and management of both water distribution systems and sewer networks can be explored. By presenting the details and principals behind the molecular microbiological techniques that we use, this paper demonstrates the potential of an integrated approach to better understand how urban water system function, and so meet future challenges.

scholarly journals Obligation or Desire: Variation in Motivation for Compliance With COVID-19 Public Health Guidance

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ting Ai ◽  
Glenn Adams ◽  
Xian Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychological Experience ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Prosocial Motivation ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Health Guidance

Why do people comply with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health guidance? This study considers cultural-psychological foundations of variation in beliefs about motivations for such compliance. Specifically, we focused on beliefs about two sources of prosocial motivation: desire to protect others and obligation to society. Across two studies, we observed that the relative emphasis on the desire to protect others (vs. the obligation to the community) as an explanation for compliance was greater in the United States settings associated with cultural ecologies of abstracted independence than in Chinese settings associated with cultural ecologies of embedded interdependence. We observed these patterns for explanations of psychological experience of both others (Study 1) and self (Study 2), and for compliance with mandates for both social distancing and face masks (Study 2). Discussion of results considers both practical implications for motivating compliance with public health guidance and theoretical implications for denaturalizing prevailing accounts of prosocial motivation.

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