Risk management and drinking water safety

风险管理和饮用水安全

• 批准号: 1185-2009
• 负责人: Hrudey, Steve
• 金额: $ 4.37万
• 依托单位: University of Alberta
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2010-01-01 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=449234
• 关键词: Risk; management; drinking; water; safety

Walkerton revealed that drinking water systems in Canada can kill consumers if they are not managed well. While the O'Connor Inquiry has provided Ontario with considerable advice on improving systems and Ontario and other provinces have spent hundreds of millions seeking to improve drinking water safety in Canada, small and remote drinking water systems remain vulnerable in many places. With over 1700 boil water advisories in place as of March 2008 across Canada, there is much improvement needed. The World Health Organization (WHO) has introduced a process-focused risk management approach based on water safety plans that is being adopted worldwide, but has not been embraced in Canada.

沃克顿透露，加拿大的饮用水系统如果管理不善，可能会导致消费者死亡。虽然奥康纳调查为安大略提供了大量关于改善系统的建议，安大略和其他省份也花费了数亿美元来改善加拿大的饮用水安全，但许多地方的小型和偏远饮用水系统仍然很脆弱。截至2008年3月，加拿大各地有超过1700个沸水锅炉，需要改进。世界卫生组织（世卫组织）在水安全计划的基础上采用了一种注重过程的风险管理方法，该方法正在全世界采用，但加拿大尚未采用。